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@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Version 2.1.0 Pragmas" as well as Sections [13-17].16, "<Database> Index Definition" in the ODB manual. - * Support for mapping additional database types, such as geospatial types, + * Support for mapping extended database types, such as geospatial types, user-defined types, and collections. This mechanism allows you to map any database type to one of the types for which ODB provides built-in support (normally string or binary). The text or binary representation diff --git a/doc/manual.xhtml b/doc/manual.xhtml index 518cf79..0b6155c 100644 --- a/doc/manual.xhtml +++ b/doc/manual.xhtml @@ -12882,13 +12882,13 @@ class object mapping between two database types. For each database system ODB provides built-in support for a core set of database types, such as integers, strings, binary, etc. However, many database - systems provide additional types such as extensions (geospatial, - key-value stores, etc.), user-defined types, and collections (arrays, - table types, etc). In order to support such additional types, ODB - allows us to map them to one of the built-in types, normally + systems provide extended types such as geospatial types, + user-defined types, and collections (arrays, table types, + key-value stores, etc). In order to support such extended types, + ODB allows us to map them to one of the built-in types, normally a string or a binary. Given the text or binary representation of the data we can then extract it into our chosen C++ data type - and thus establish a mapping between an additional database type and + and thus establish a mapping between an extended database type and its C++ equivalent.</p> <p>The <code>map</code> pragma has the following format:</p> @@ -13075,7 +13075,7 @@ class object in a similar way. The <code>odb-tests</code> package contains a set of tests in the <code><database>/custom</code> directories that, for each database, shows how to provide custom mapping for some of - the additional types.</p> + the extended types.</p> <h2><a name="12.8">12.8 C++ Compiler Warnings</a></h2> |