Hi - I can’t help with your GLORP query but you may find ReStore a viable alternative, particularly if you're starting with a new database:
https://github.com/rko281/ReStoreForPharo <https://github.com/rko281/ReStoreForPharo> I’ve just checked and the MySQL/MariaDB connector is working in both Pharo 9 and 10. Cheers. John Aspinall > On 22 Dec 2021, at 20:33, laszlo.szoln...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hi, I’m new to the Pharo users mailing list and to Pharo in general, too. > > My goal is to make a CRUD web application using Seaside, Magritte, GLORP and > MariaDB (MySQL-like RDBMS). > > I already test-drove GLORP with PostgreSQL-P3, with success. > > But I need MariaDB because it implements SQL:2011 (which Postgres lacks > currently) thus enabling the use of system-versioned and bi-temporal tables. > > Currently I don’t need GLORP to handle any of the SQL:2011 features as the > versioning would be invisible to the web app, it is needed only for auditing > purposes. > > I tried to make the system work be installing the MySQL driver into a fresh > Pharo9 image: > > Metacello new repository: 'github://pharo-rdbms/Pharo-MySQL'; baseline: > 'MySQL'; load Since the package 'MySQL-Glorp' didn't load, I installed it > manually from github. (Sorry but I'm noob to work with baselines, Iceberg, > Monticello and such.) Then loaded GLORP: Metacello new repository: > 'github://pharo-rdbms/glorp'; baseline: 'Glorp'; load. Then I tried to do > everything in a similar manner to how I did it with P3: login := Login new > database: MySQLPlatform new; username: 'root'; password: '****'; host: '<my > host>'; port: '3306'; databaseName: 'test'. accessor := DatabaseAccessor > forLogin: login. accessor login. accessor isLoggedIn. >>> true Yay, very > nice. Then: session := GlorpBookDescriptorSystem sessionForLogin: login. > *GlorpBookDescriptorSystem is subclass of DescriptorSystem. It comes from the > demo from pharobooks with an example on how to use GLORP with P3. It contains > the demo class models, descriptors and table definitions. And finally: > session login. >>> Instance of MySQLDriver did not understand #queryEncoding > :( Any hints appreciated. > >