[Vtigercrm-developers] prefacing tables with vtiger_? r7003:7004

[Allan Bush]

Yeah it's just a string concatenation which isn't really any harder to
do then appending the hard coded string.  And all add-ons will have to
adapt the hard coded string anyways they could just as easily use the
configurable prefix.

Adodb xmlschema supports using a prefix so the installation is covered
by changing one line instead of a couple hundred like the patch uses.

On 6/12/06, Jeff Kowalczyk <jtk at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Allan Bush wrote:
> > My next question is why didn't we make the prefix configurable?
>
> Not sure how that would work; every table reference would be a string
> concatenation? Does ADODB have anything that supports this automagically?
>
> All add-ons would have to adopt the table prefix strategy, whether it be
> hardcoding prefixed names, or string concatenation of a configurable
> prefix.
>
> The two likely possibilities motivating the change were conflicting names
> internally, and your guess of integration requirements.
>
> If you're right that it's about integration, wouldn't we be better off
> with an external data access API and encourage/enforce integration across
> that interface? It's not like vtiger has stopped frequently adding or
> changing tables yet.
>
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