Re: [Gnumed-devel] billing by GnuMed / TORCH / OSCAR

[Karsten Hilbert]

> Unfortunately not. In gnumed I wanted to make the schema the API through the 
> use of trigger functions etc. (business logic on the backend), but it's not 
> working out as originally intended. We still need some middleware, hence the 
> API would interface the middleware and not the schema directly.
Neverthelesse, the schema *is* one sort of API. If some
application doesn't offer any other API the schema is a lot
better than nothing. Much better than undocumented file
formats, for example.

> By definition, an API grants you safe intentional access.
> Modifying a database via direct record access without more information about 
> the structure is likely to cause problems.
ACK.

Karsten
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