[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 116953] EDITING: UI: Firebird: Migration: Base fails to call QueryEditor for defined database view

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116953

--- Comment #9 from Julien Nabet <serval2412 at yahoo.fr> ---
(In reply to Drew Jensen from comment #8)
> one more comment.
> 
> I'm a bit surprised to hear the MySQL and PostgresSQL connectors don't
> support this. 
I'm not so affirmative. I just noticed xAlterVIew isn't present in Mysql or
PostGreSQL part (according to Opengrok) but I didn't test editing a view on
these DBs.

About your 2 last comments about missing code, the problem is Base has only 1
core dev (Lionel) + Tamas whereas it's a big part.
Indeed, Base has more dependencies than other LO components: 
- external drivers of DBs
- external package for reports (JFreereport)
- Java/JNI
Moreovover every feature for pivot DB (hsqldb and soon Firebird) should ideally
work for other DBs. It's not sot easy, just consider migration part from hsqldb
to Firebird. Also some DBs types can only be tested on specific envs (Macab on
MacOs)
In brief, as long as Base doesn't attract more devs, I think the situation
won't evolve a lot.
It may explain why some people would like to remove Base from LO. (I don't know
if it's still the Tor's opinion, see
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2011/07/21/developer-interview-tor-lillqvist/)

Sorry for this long digression.

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