Done. Thanks Sean!  H.

On 03/23/2011 11:30 AM, Sean Davis wrote:
> Hi, Herve.  It may be worthwhile announcing this more broadly on 
> R-sig-db.
>
> Sean
>
> 2011/3/23 Hervé Pagès <hpages@fhcrc.org <mailto:hpages@fhcrc.org>>
>
>     Hi Philip,
>
>     Thanks again for your feedback. I've removed the "automatic
>     reconnection to a
>     database from a saved object" feature from Rdbi. I totally agree
>     with you that this
>     feature is not good design.
>
>     We've also decided to move forward and to deprecate Rdbi/RdbiPgSQL
>     in favor
>     of DBI/RPostgreSQL. Note that Rdbi/RdbiPgSQL will still be
>     available in the upcoming
>     release (BioC 2.8) but they will issue a warning at load time and
>     point the user to
>     DBI/PostgreSQL. Then later, during the BioC 2.9 devel cycle, we
>     will remove those
>     2 packages.
>
>     I hope this is OK.
>
>     Cheers,
>     H.
>
>
>     On 03/22/2011 02:32 AM, Philip Lijnzaad wrote:
>
>         Hi Hervé,
>
>             How many people are still using Rdbi?
>
>         mmm ... no idea. The stats do show a downward sloping trend,
>         that much is
>         clear.
>
>             It has long been superseded by
>             DBI. One long standing reason for not moving to DBI was
>             that there
>             was no support for PostgreSQL in the DBI world for a long
>             time. But
>             this has changed recently with RPostgreSQL now available
>             on CRAN.
>             Now the question is how good is RPostgreSQL these days? Is
>             it mature
>             enough to be worth migrating apps from Rdbi/RdbiPgSQL to
>             DBI/RPostgreSQL? Is it something you've considered/tried?
>
>         No, I wasn't aware of this, I will look into it.
>
>             Maybe it's time for us to deprecate Rdbi/RdbiPgSQL?
>
>         I think that is probably the case, but at the same time I
>         would argue that
>         simply changing the .onLoad() function to an empty one (or
>         deleting it, dunno
>         what's best) solves a design error that would at least help
>         the current
>         users.
>
>             Feedback from
>             other "PostgreSQL within R" users would be appreciated.
>
>         Certainly. Thanks,
>
>
>
>                                                                      
>                  Philip
>
>
>
>     -- 
>     Hervé Pagès
>
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Program in Computational Biology
Division of Public Health Sciences
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
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