- From: Jim Whitehead <ejw@soe.ucsc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:02:31 -0800
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: www-webdav-dasl@w3.org
On Dec 18, 2006, at 9:52 AM, Julian Reschke wrote: > > Jim Whitehead schrieb: >> One of the original goals of DASL is to be able to create queries >> that easily translate to SQL. If you have a DASL interpreter of >> this type (as is the case with Catacomb), then the collation order >> is, to a large extent, outside the control of the DASL >> implementation. The collation order is controlled by the >> underlying SQL engine. > > Right. And even worse, you may even not be able to find out what > the collation is. I agree this is undesirable. OTOH, short of exposing a string identifying the underlying database and version (a security risk), I'm not sure how we could reliably expose this. > >> I imagine that if the DASL specification indicated a collation >> order that was inconsistent with the underlying query engine use >> by an implementation, the implementation would just ignore the >> specification. > > Right. I'm currently tempted to close this issue as WONTFIX for the > initial revision, and add an appendix discussing the issues and > potential approaches. I'd love to hear a better solution, but I think what you are stating is realistic. - Jim
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