Re: [GENERAL] What is Dialect

2010-11-23 Thread Craig Ringer
On 11/22/2010 03:32 PM, Adarsh Sharma wrote: Dear all, I am reading about Dialects of different databases. Yet I can't understand what is the need of dialect in Postgres or any other like Hibernate uses Dialect of all Databases for ORM. What is it & How can we create our own Dialect ? If you h

Re: [GENERAL] What is Dialect

2010-11-22 Thread Mike Christensen
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 12:26 AM, Andreas wrote: > Am 22.11.2010 08:32, schrieb Adarsh Sharma: >> >> I am reading about Dialects of different databases. Yet I can't understand >> what is the need of dialect in Postgres or any other like Hibernate uses >> Dialect of all Databases for ORM. >> What i

Re: [GENERAL] What is Dialect

2010-11-22 Thread Andreas
Am 22.11.2010 08:32, schrieb Adarsh Sharma: I am reading about Dialects of different databases. Yet I can't understand what is the need of dialect in Postgres or any other like Hibernate uses Dialect of all Databases for ORM. What is it & As far as I know, the term dialect is used to express

Re: [GENERAL] What is Dialect

2010-11-22 Thread Mike Christensen
If I understand your question correctly, a Dialect is an abstraction layer that allows Hibernate to talk with different database backends (MySQL, PG, Oracle, SQLServer, etc). Since different databases have different syntaxes, various features, etc. This seems more of a Hibernate question though,

[GENERAL] What is Dialect

2010-11-21 Thread Adarsh Sharma
Dear all, I am reading about Dialects of different databases. Yet I can't understand what is the need of dialect in Postgres or any other like Hibernate uses Dialect of all Databases for ORM. What is it & How can we create our own Dialect ? Thanks in Advance Adarsh Sharma -- Sent via pgsql-g