[postmodern-devel] Re: postmodern-devel Digest, Vol 2, Issue 4

[Giorgos Pontikakis]

Hello Marijn, 

Sorry for the belated response, I had been busy through the week and I 
checked my email just today

| I released verion .21, which should solve your first two problems.
Great, I will try the new version. Thanks


| Haven't quite decided on the syntax for foreign keys, maybe
| :create-table can look like defclass too:
|
| (:create-table 'my-table
|   ((slot-a :type integer :foreign-key (my-other-table id) :default
| 55) (slot-b :type (or null (string 24)))
|   (:primary-key slot-a)
|   (:foreign-key (slot-a slot-b) (yet-another-table a b)
|   (:unique-index slot-b)) ;; Not really part of CREATE TABLE, but
| hey, why not?

| Then deftable doesn't have to do as much transforming on the
| definition and can remain simple.
|
| Also, I'm not sure how to handle the creation of a set of tables
| that contain foreign keys -- since they have to be created in the
| right order. Altering them is even more tricky. Maybe I'll default
| to deferrable foreign keys, and turn on deferring when messing with
| the table scheme.
|
| Let me know what you think.
|
Well, I don't know, sorry. I am an amateur and my real job does not 
involve computers. I have no experience in sql. 

I just noticed that you released 0.22. I'll try to use it and I'll 
report if I have anything constructive to say. 

Thanks again

-- Giorgos