[TYPO3-dev] The extbase dilemma

[Xavier Perseguers]

Hi,

>> Well, I hope all devs know about the capabilities of their tools,
>> otherwise we're knee-deep in trouble.
>> What get's me thinking is this (maybe Xavier can comment on this):
>> Since MySQL has matured over the last 10 years we still only use a tiny
>> subset of its features.
>> Can someone explain to me why we don't use the full potential of the
>> database?
>
> I guess that is a case of dbal lowest common denominator for all
> possible db systems?

DBAL could be enhanced to support more features because the other 
supported DBMS are (way) more powerful than MySQL, we have PostgreSQL, 
Oracle and MS SQL Server. Don't tell me they don't have even more 
features ;-)

But I agree DBAL does not support *much* currently. However we are 
speaking about Extbase and it already abstracts SQL meaning we could get 
rid of nearly all features provided by DBAL because we don't have to 
parse anything, we just have to generate the corresponding SQL for the 
underlying DBMS. This was already discussed. The only sensible part of 
DBAL that should be reused is the remapping feature, that's all!

-- 
Xavier Perseguers
Release Manager TYPO3 4.6

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