[ic] adding Frontbase SQL database support

[Mike Heins]

Quoting cfm@maine.com (cfm@maine.com):
> On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 09:57:58PM -0400, Chad Leigh, Shire.Net LLC wrote:
> > I am wanting to add FrontBase (www.frontbase.com) SQL database support.  I 
> > have the DBD driver for FrontBase and interchange server will log in but 
> > the postgres SQL is malformed for FrontBase. I want to go in and add 
> > FrontBase support.
> > 
> > I cannot find where the "template" files for SQL generation are kept so it 
> > knows to add a ";" and stuff like that and what types to use for things 
> > (VARCHAR2 for Oracle versus VARCHAR or CHAR on other DBs for example).  I 
> > did find some files in my first catalogs area of the interchange 
> > installation, but they were in the first catalog named area and I suspect 
> > there should be some system wide definitions somewhere?
> > 
> > Any hints on where to start to add this support would be welcome and 
> > appreciated.
> 
> See lib/Vend/Data.pm, lib/Vend/Table, and lib/Vend/Table/DBI.pm in
> particular.
> 

None of that should be, nor should need to be, edited.
If it is crucial to override routines in there, you should
use the GlobalSub method of direct override.

My guess is all that should need to be changed is the dbconf/*/* files.

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