[Libreoffice] ODBC literal escapes in LibreOffice

Alexander Thurgood alex.thurgood at gmail.com
Fri Sep 2 09:33:10 PDT 2011


Le 02/09/11 18:05, Lionel Elie Mamane a écrit :

Hi again,

> 
> So, I wanted to check whether it is policy that SDBC drivers must
> accept ODBC escapes in SQL strings (and the PostgreSQL SDBC driver
> will have to be changed so that it does), or whether there would be
> interest in me gradually changing LibreOffice to *not* use
> ODBC-specific escapes. For example, instead of using an SQL query
> prepared on the fly, using a prepared statement and using (interface
> XParameters) e.g. setDate / setTime / setTimestamp to insert the
> values in a "compatible with all databases" way. This would have the
> advantage to making LO more compatible with eventual other databases
> that do not support the ODBC escapes.
> 

Might this also have an impact on Basic macros, which currently have to
convert Basic com.sun.star.util.Date used as a date variable into
something that the XParameter setDate can understand because the two are
not the same ?


Alex



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