Re: moving forward: thanks for feedback

Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote: > Greg Beaver wrote: > >> One concern I have is that all mysql-specific sets are converted into >> simple text fields. If there is a way to tell MDB2_Schema to use a set >> type when installing to a mysql database, that would be very good to >> know. Otherwise, I'll go through the code and make sure that we are >> validating input properly in places where it may have relied upon the >> database constraints to catch errors. > > > SET/ENUM are currently not supported in MDB2_Schema. > They could be supported for MySQL via custom datatypes. > For ENUMs it would be nice to one day support CHECK constraints. > SET is sort of un-relational. Then again array support is now part of > the standard. Anyways for now the only solution would be to move the > necessary logic to the PHP code. Can you point me to the docs for custom datatypes? I was trying to find that earlier and failed. Thanks, Greg