[ZOPE] ZBabel translation to Postgres

Olaf Zanger Olaf.Zanger@gmx.net
Fri, 5 Jan 2001 09:57:40 +0100 (MET)


hi Andrew and others,

> I get errors:
> when i first want to view a page with the <dtml-babel src=uk dst=de>
> test</dtml-babel>
> 
> pg.error
> error value: error: attribute 'phrases_phrase_id_seq' not found

i changed the column name of the id from "phrase_id" to "id" and get
still the same error message as above. 
so i figured that my bug is not in my changes but somewhere in the
python code. 

do you have any help?

thanks
olaf

> you need in postgresql (this is tested only from zope with zsql method,
> since some other things don't work in the ZBabel Produkt with
> postgresql):
> 
> sqlGetPhrasesToUpdate:
> 
> select distinct Phrases.*
> 
> WHERE md5Hash not in
> (
>  select c.md5Hash
>  from Phrases as c, Phrases as d
>  where c.md5Hash = d.md5Hash and c.lang <> d.lang and c.lang='<dtml-var
> srcLang>'
> )
> and lang <>'<dtml-var srcLang>'
> 
> sqlNewPhrase:
> 
> insert into Phrases (phrase_id,lang,md5Hash,renderPath,renderText)
> values (
> nextval('phrases_phrase_id_seq'),
> <dtml-sqlvar lang type=nb>,
> <dtml-sqlvar md5Hash type=nb>,
> <dtml-sqlvar renderPath type=nb>,
> <dtml-sqlvar renderText type=nb>
> )
> 
> all other sqlFunctions seam to work (out of zope ZSQL method)
> 
> i attache the ZBabel.sql for postgres.
> the examples are handgenerated so the hashes are fake.
> 
> TAKE CARE
> until now this just fakes the ability of ZBabel on Postgres on a ZSQL
> Method level for testing purposes.
> 
> I get errors:
> when i first want to view a page with the <dtml-babel src=uk dst=de>
> test</dtml-babel>
> 
> pg.error
> error value: error: attribute 'phrases_phrase_id_seq' not found
> 
> probably that helps anybody
> 
> olaf
> 
> > | What does the whole thing do anyway?
> >
> > Finds all the phrases that don't have a translation for the language
> > selected. It's hard to find things that don't exist in databases
without
> > nested selects which MySQL did not have at the time.
> >
> > MySQL was chosen precisely because it is restricted, and is basically
the
> > lowest common denominator when it comes to SQL.
> >
> > I do recall however, that postgres only implements INNER and OUTER
joins
> > although I don't know the status of the JOIN stuff in postgres at this
time.
> >
> > | Has anybody ported ZBabel already?
> >
> > Someone was going to send me patches for postgres, but, I never
received
> > them.
> >
> > I'll happily integrate patches, although, automatically selecting the
> > right query based on database type will be required so that several
releases
> > aren't required. I don't think that that's a hard thing to achieve.
> 

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