On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 07:33 -0400, Alan DeKok wrote:
Peter Nixon <listuser@peternixon.net> wrote:
This makes sense to me. I think it should be for 2.0 though as changing the name of fields in a DB schema will break compatibility.
I'm not set on changing the name. If it's a problem, we can leave it as-is.
One of my pet peeves is that the mysql config file is called "sql.conf" which tends to confuse non-mysql users the first time around. This should be renamed to mysql.conf (oraclesql.conf should be renamed to oracle.conf also)
Let's fix that.
I think it may even be a good idea to make a raddb/sql/*.conf structure,= either that or maybe we should name the files sql.mysql.conf, sql.postgresl.conf etc. This then allows sqlippool.mysql.conf also. (Alternatively the sqlipool config should go inside the existing sql config files.)
Sure. We can also split the sql.conf file into:
sql.conf - global SQL things to the site, which does driver = postgresql trace files... $INCLUDE sql/postgresql.conf
for any postgres-specific things.
That sounds interesting. It would likely make it easier to provide some alternate configuration files for the different types of radius installs like : sql/postgresql-dialup.conf sql/postgresql-wireless.conf sql/postgresql-voip.conf Providing these along with the appropriate schema files, could significantly reduce the problems for new adopters. I believe most of these versions are available in scattered locations around the net. I am only doing using it for dialup, so I have not done much research into the other configs.
We can nuke the "rlm_sql" prefix from the "driver" config item, and update the code to accept one or the other.
Also, before a 2.0 release I would like to sit down and bring the queries for the different SQL variants as close together as possible as they have gradually diverged over the last few years. (Much of it my fault as I have been continually adding new features to the postgresql schema :-)
Sounds good to me.
Like Peter, I have been focused on PostgreSQL development, and my last significant contributions was getting the PostgreSQL equivalent to the MySQL, but that was quite a long time ago. I have also been developing another administration interface, but need to clean it up. Since I only had 3 weeks to develop it, I combined some code written for other purposes to speed the development, and want to rework what I have written now that the initial crunch is over. There are also some additional features I want to add that need to be fleshed out. Q: Is there a time frame to get submissions in for inclusion into 2.0 ?
I have a few other things on my agenda that I'd love to do, like have per-"listen" configuration sections, but I think that's hard.
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