[TYPO3-mvc] Oracle DB Backend

[Zachary Davis]

I just took a look at this, too:

http://forge.typo3.org/issues/5374

Which suggests that perhaps rewriting Typo3DBBackend so that it uses 
exec_* methods in TYPO3's DB is a good interim solution.

Zach

Zachary Davis wrote:
> I have a client that's using DBAL with an Oracle database backend. My
> understanding is that ExtBase is not currently working with Oracle
> (correct, right?) However, we intend to use ExtBase for this project,
> and we're ready to dig in and do what needs to be done to make ExtBase
> work with Oracle. I'd like to do this in such a way that the work can be
> reused by others and potentially brought into the ExtBase (and/or DBAL).
>
>  From what I've seen on the newsgroups, there is some disagreement about
> how to approach this. If I understand the discussion correctly, one
> approach would be to try to make DBAL support the various query
> mechanisms that ExtBase uses (eg, sub-selects). Another approach would
> be to write a DB backend in ExtBase that is geared at Oracle.
>
> What I want to avoid doing is going in a direction with this that isn't
> the direction that the various folks involved involved with ExtBase and
> DBAL want to take, thereby reducing the likelihood that the work we do
> can be used by others.
>
> My question, then, is whether someone here can point me in the general
> direction that we should take on this project. Is writing a new storage
> backend in ExtBase the path that will most likely lead to our work
> getting committed? Or will we be better off working on DBAL and it's
> query parsing mechanisms? Or is there a another, better approach here
> that I'm not seeing? If someone from the ExtBase team could give me some
> general direction on where would be the best place to implement this,
> I'm pretty confident we can take it from there.
>
> best,
> Zach
>