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-COMMONSQL SPEC
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-* Missing:
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- RECONNECT
- CACHE-TABLE-QUERIES
- *CACHE-TABLE-QUERIES-DEFAULT*
- *DEFAULT-UPDATE-OBJECTS-MAX-LEN*
- UPDATE-OBJECT-JOINS
- INSTANCE-REFRESHED
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-* Incompatible
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- >> Initialisation and connection
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- CONNECT
- o should accept string as connection spec
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- DISCONNECT
- o should accept string as connection spec
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- INITIALIZE-DATABASE-TYPE
- o should initialise appropriate backend
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- STATUS
- o what is the behaviour in CommonSQL (esp :full parameter)?
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- >> The functional sql interface
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- SELECT
- o should accept keyword arg :refresh and call INSTANCE-REFRESHED
- o should return (values result-list field-names)
- o should coerce values returned as strings to appropriate lisp type
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- QUERY
- o should return (values result-list field-names)
- o should coerce values returned as strings to appropriate lisp type
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- LIST-ATTRIBUTE-TYPES
- o should return list of (attribute datatype precision scale nullable)
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- LOOP
- o the extension is currently CMUCL specific
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- >> The object-oriented sql interface
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- DEF-VIEW-CLASS
- o get :target-slot working
- o implement :retrieval :immediate
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- LIST-CLASSES
- o keyword arg :root-class should do something (portable)
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- DO-QUERY,MAP-QUERY,LOOP
- o should work with object queries as well as functional ones
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- >> Symbolic SQL syntax
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- o Complete sql expressions (see operations.lisp)
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- substr
- some
- order-by
- times
- nvl
- null
- distinct
- except
- intersect
- between
- userenv
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- o variables (e.g., table identifiers) should be instantiated at runtime
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-NOTES ABOUT THE BACKENDS
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-MYSQL
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-drop-index: requires a table to be specified with the :from keyword parameter
-transactions: don't seem to work
-views: mysql does not support views
-queries: nested subqueries do not seem to work
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-SQLITE
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-create-view: column-list parameter not supported