http://halfcooked.com/blog/2009/11/25/gerald-release-0-3-1/ Wherein I write some stuff that you may like to read. Or not, its up to you really. Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:43:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://halfcooked.com/blog/2009/11/25/gerald-release-0-3-1/comment-page-1/#comment-40334 mike bayer Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:29:04 +0000 http://halfcooked.com/blog/?p=122#comment-40334 Have you considered making use of SQLAlchemy's schema reflection features as the basis for how Gerald extracts this information ? 0.6 has a fine grained interface for this called the "Inspector", agnostic of SQLA's usual "Table" and "Column" constructs and instead returning plain list/dict structures. The API is not in the docs yet but can be reviewed here: http://www.sqlalchemy.org/trac/browser/sqlalchemy/trunk/lib/sqlalchemy/engine/reflection.py . You'd get support for PG, Oracle, MySQL, Firebird, SQLite, MS-SQL and any new dialects added (like DB2, sybase) for free, support for a wide variety of DBAPIs for each including Jython support, and improvements to Gerald and SQLAlchemy would benefit each other. Have you considered making use of SQLAlchemy’s schema reflection features as the basis for how Gerald extracts this information ? 0.6 has a fine grained interface for this called the “Inspector”, agnostic of SQLA’s usual “Table” and “Column” constructs and instead returning plain list/dict structures. The API is not in the docs yet but can be reviewed here: http://www.sqlalchemy.org/trac/browser/sqlalchemy/trunk/lib/sqlalchemy/engine/reflection.py . You’d get support for PG, Oracle, MySQL, Firebird, SQLite, MS-SQL and any new dialects added (like DB2, sybase) for free, support for a wide variety of DBAPIs for each including Jython support, and improvements to Gerald and SQLAlchemy would benefit each other.

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