Giuseppe, it would be definitely important to have such a feature in QGis. <div>I imagine an abstract layer that operates thorugh pluggable drivers, as we can find on other desktop gis (like the db manager [1] for Gvsig). </div>
<div>Good luck for your GsoC proposal!</div><div><br></div><div>giovanni</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="http://forge.osor.eu/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/tags/v1_11_0_Build_1305/libraries/libGDBMS/?root=gvsig-desktop">http://forge.osor.eu/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/tags/v1_11_0_Build_1305/libraries/libGDBMS/?root=gvsig-desktop</a><br>
<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/4/6 Tim Sutton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lists@linfiniti.com" target="_blank">lists@linfiniti.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Guiseppe<br>
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8<--------snip----------------<br>
<div>>><br>
>> Proposal.<br>
>> My aim is to merge both 3 plugins together and create the DB_manager plugin.<br>
>><br>
>> First and the most important requirement, the DB_manager plugin *must* be<br>
>> easily<br>
>> expandable to manage different kind of databases (e.g. mysql, ...).<br>
>> I didn't look ahead when I forked PG_manager, but I want to correct my<br>
>> mistakes.<br>
>><br>
>> Second, it should permit an easy management of databases, running common<br>
>> tasks<br>
>> as create/alter/delete tables, retrieve infos about tables, run queries, ...<br>
>> .<br>
>> Those are implemented in PG/SL_manager yet, but I have to do some changes to<br>
>> make them more general than they are.<br>
>><br>
>> Third, DB_manager should allow to load tables as layer on the QGis canvas<br>
>> and,<br>
>> on the contrary, import layers from the canvas into the db.<br>
>><br>
>> What is your opinion? Did I miss something?<br>
>> What other features would you like to see? And what other plugins (if any)<br>
>> would it be<br>
>> good to integrate in?<br>
>><br>
>> Thanks for your comments.<br>
>><br>
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</div>What about having some kind of plugin architecture (I know a plugin<br>
with plugins is probably a bit meta!) so that other DBMS backends can<br>
easily use your manager? I'm thinking that other backends like<br>
SQLAnywhere could easily also benifit from your work just by<br>
implementing a small stub for your plugin api....<br>
<br>
I think you GSOC proposal would make a fantastic addition to QGIS and<br>
I wish you all success with your proposal.<br>
<br>
Regards<br>
<br>
Tim<br>
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