[orm-devel] Automatic table modufication (was: orm)

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Hi Eric,

	I appreciate what your saying and I agree that ORM shouldn't do full on
schema management. 

What I'm proposing is a way to minimize maintenance for us programmers.

The way it stands at present we need to keep the ORM object and the SQL
table defs in line manually. Mikes code could be enhanced, if we found a
notation for relationships (see earlier post "Re: [orm-devel] Re: ORM"),
to return the class def to ORM based on the table schema.

Uwe.

> Diedrich Vorberg wrote:
> >>Not to chase you away, or anything, but I think you might want to take a
> >>look at the GNUe project, as well as ORM: it's targetted more at the 'all
> >>singing, all dancing' sort of system your talking about. My understanding
> >>of Deidrich's vision/goals for ORM is that it's biggest virtue is in it's
> >>light weight - it's a membrane, not an entire layer. I'd be concerned about
> >>blowing it up with functions like database schema management  - it'd lose
> >>it's lightness, I'm afraid.
> > 
> > 
> > I can see the point Ross' is making here. ORM is supposed to be a
> > smart helper not a grown up middleware framework. However, depending
> > on how sophisticated the table modification mechanism is supposed to
> > be, it might not be very hard to write and it might not even outgrow 
> > its writer.
> 
> I'd stay away from the idea of making orm do schema management.  My fear 
> would be that adding this kind of feature set would make orm bloated and 
> cumbersome.  I also think that schema management is best left to the db 
> supplier (or other third parties that specialize in it).  I generally 
> put a lot of thought and time into designing a schema that will 
> efficiently model the problem domain.  Actually building the tables 
> takes up only a small portion of this time.  I really *hate* changing 
> the schema once the entities/tables have been created - the ability to 
> have orm do it for me doesn't sound very interesting.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Eric.
> 
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