7.1. `msql' driver - MiniSQL v1.x, lightweight database engine by D.Hughes

Supported databases

mSQL driver supports 1.x versions of MiniSQL, lightweight SQL engine developed by David Hughes. Home page of Hughes Technologies Pty. Ltd. is at http://www.hughes.com.au/.

To have an access to modern 2.x versions of mSQL engine please use separate `msql2' driver.

Warning: It is impossible to compile both `msql' and `msql2' drivers statically into your executable. On some Os'es (FreeBSD, for example) the situation is even harder - it's impossible to use say `msql2' driver when `msql' compiled in statically because of name clashes (when OS resolves object's references not from object itself, but from executable).

Accepted options

MiniSQL driver supports following options:

--- database (required!)

A reference to internal mSQL database name.

--- host

A host (FQDN or IP address) on which the server resides. If not set local connection through Unix-socket is used.

--- port

A TCP port on which mSQL server accepts incoming connections. By default drivers attempts to connect to 1112 port.

--- socket

A path to Unix-socket, through which communication is done if `host' option is not set. By default `/dev/msql' is used.

Driver's author

mSQL driver is written by Andrew Maltsev ( am@amsoft.ru).

Last modified at October 23, 1997.