[Kexi] Tieing databases together?

[Jarosław Staniek]

scott said the following, On 2007-11-13 00:17:
> Jarosław Staniek wrote:
>> scott said the following, On 2007-11-12 23:43:
>>  
>>>    How does one define relationships between databases?
>>>     
>>
>> Hello Scott,
>> If you mean tables, currently you can only define weak relationhips 
>> within queries. Physical relationhips within the database is not yet 
>> available and won't be until Kexi 2.x (x>0). You can always define 
>> them using external tools (if your engine is PotgreSQL or MySQL), but 
>> you need to know what are you doing.
>>
>> Relationhips between databases is also not supported, and won't be 
>> unless attaching a database is implemented (SQLite allows for this).
>>
>> Your other questions will be hopefully answered tomorrow.
>>
>>   
>   Thanks for the reply.  When might 2.0 or 2.x be out?  I am using 
> MySQL. Hopefully when altering a database when it has data in it won't 
> cause data loss in the next release. 

You need to wait about 8 months for production stability. But in the meantime 
it is good idea to put as much as possible (sane) wishes or notes to 
bugs.kde.org about features that could be improved after transition to 2.x. 
Namely, you can be part of the Team.

> Are you saying that with this 
> release one can't attach a database?

By attaching I mean semantics like this: http://www.sqlite.org/lang_attach.html

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