On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 18:35 +0100, Dries Buytaert wrote:
The more I think about it, the more it boils down to this question. What do we care more about? Optimizing Drupal for developers, or getting more database experts on board?
I think the question of what database folks want or feel should be garnered from database folk, not assumed. The conversations I have with the DBA's I work with normally go along the lines of the database should handle data and data related functions, not the application. Only business and presentation logic should be in the application. They're interested in stored procedures, transactions, triggers, etc. Which Drupal will probably never have since it caters to the least common denominator. A schema abstraction layer won't help or hinder DBA's. They're going to be examining the schema from the DB not Drupal. It will make life easier for developers and adventurous database folks. .darrel.