Ann Harrison wrote:

>Blas Rodriguez Somoza wrote:
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>> Could gpre optionally use a *.gdl file instead of the database? If it
>>is possible then it seems the build don't need existing databases to run
>>and the only needed seed are gdl files.
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>Gpre is currently set up to run against those header files you want to
>generate as part of the build. Gdl is a nice enought data definition
>language, but decidedly non-SQL. Updating that language and processor
>to handle new constructs is a waste of everyone's time. Relations.h,
>Fields.h, etc. are the seed for a completely bootstrap build.
>

More to the point, when GPRE (my very first C program, predating the
engine by two months) is precompiling module for internal use, it
generates BLR with ids rather than names. While GPRE knows how to
assign ids from the include file, they aren't architecturally
controllable from the data definition language.


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