> >> Agreed, but you cannot every kind of data type, for that you > >> will probably need the various databases... and hopefully a > >> continuous integration server to run the tests... > >> > > > > Sqldb converts databases types to the internal ftxxx datatypes. So, > > yes, you can everything without external databases. > I admit I need to delve deeper into this, but to me it's > strange we have datatypes like ftOracleBlob and > ftParadoxOLE... These do seem to be database-specific (ok, > maybe within fcl-db, but still). Earlier today I've written > code to dumbly create a bufdataset with all these datatypes > for and will see what happens when assigning data to it. If > it blows, I'll comment it out... we'll see.
Db.pas line 2020 gives you the mapping between ftxxx and corresponding Tfield descendant. This is a default mapping but AFAIK no db implementation is actually overriding this. Since there are a lot of ftxxx mapped to only a few TField classes, the testcases can be reduced considerably. It'll help also in reducing the long 'case fieldtype' statements you have now. Ludo _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
