[R-sig-DB] Improving DBI

[Kirill Müller]

Hi


I have prepared a proposal for improving DBI, and three backends to 
open-source databases: http://bit.ly/1QZNNrC (current version), 
http://bit.ly/1Uhn1ZC (version at the time of writing). Among other 
things, I plan to improve support for data types, parametrized queries, 
and database schemas. Ultimately, DBI will be formally specified by a 
test suite and a written description.

Before submitting it to the R Consortium, I'd be glad to receive further 
input. Are there other design issues that need to be addressed? Other 
points I have missed? Issues you might want to see resolved as part of 
this project? See also the GitHub issue trackers for DBI [1] (which also 
contains the design discussion [2]), RMySQL [3], RPostgres [4] and 
RSQLite [5].

Please note that the deadline for submitting the proposal is already 
January 10. Thank you for your attention.


Best regards

Kirill


[1] https://github.com/rstats-db/DBI/issues
[2] 
https://github.com/rstats-db/DBI/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Aaction%3Adesign
[3] https://github.com/rstats-db/RMySQL/issues
[4] https://github.com/rstats-db/RPostgres/issues
[5] https://github.com/rstats-db/RSQLite/issues