Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] SQL patch

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 11:36:31 -0800

On Oct 30, 2003, at 7:32 AM, Jason House wrote:
I have thought about SQL dumps in the past... I think that a good starting point might be to try to consider how to dump a particular protocol to a database (via one or more linked tables). 

By "dump a protocol" do you mean "dump every field for that protocol"?

I suspect people might want to selectively dump particular fields.
They might also want some row of the table to contain fields from more than one protocol; perhaps it's *fields* that should be dumped, not *protocols*, at least in some cases. Dumping all the fields might also be useful.
As is true with everything, there is no easy way to mass process all protocols... The generation of usable SQL tables requires customization by protocol.
Hopefully "customization" doesn't involve changing any dissectors. I think it'd be ideal if SQL dumping could be done *without* protocol changes, so that dissector writers don't have to anticipate what people might want to put into databases.