On 29-7-2011 9:27, michael.vancann...@wisa.be wrote: > > > On Thu, 28 Jul 2011, Ludo Brands wrote: > >>>>> 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. > > Not in FPC, but in Delphi, IBX for instance overrides it. > Maybe mseide does it too. > > Michael.
Ok, just to be safe and document mappings in any event, I'll keep the complete list of mappings in the exporter. I'll only test with the types that work in a bufdataset... Regards, Reinier _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
