[development] Extend database abstraction layer, to include table creation.

[Darrel O'Pry]

On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 21:45 +0200, Adrian Rossouw wrote:
> On 11 May 2006, at 9:36 PM, Karoly Negyesi wrote:
> > Ah yes. And between 'character variable' of postgres and 'varchar'  
> > of mysql, which one ?
> 
> ? what do you mean ?
> 
  Couldn't we just be agnostic and use the ANSI SQL type names? Although
that would make our nomenclature lean closer to PostGreSql's. I think
someone implementing Ingres would be more familiar with the ANSI type
names than mysql.