WL#1278: Create an ODBC-backed Table Handler
Affects: Server-7.1
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Status: Un-Assigned
Some users would find it useful to create tables inside MySQL that are actually tables that exist on other non-MySQL databases. It should be possible to create a table handler that uses ODBC to expose this data as tables to a MySQL server through the table handler/storage engine interface. The problem is that MySQL uses FRM file for every table, and field list with their data types,lengths, flags is loaded from this file. Adding this handler required moving this functionality into handler level, i.e we should fetch table strucuture from the remote server every time we execute a query for a remote table. It might be dramatically slow. Another problem is transaction handling. What should we do if MySQL rallbacks or commits a transaction? Should we also do the same for a remote table? What if remote transaction fails on commit? Should we also rallback local transaction?
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