Thread:Extension talk:DataTable2/Column ordering bug and two feature requests/reply

Pleased to know that my extension is useful to somebody.
 * The bug is fixed in version 1.0.2 which I have just published.
 * Re Feature Request No. 1, I'm not totally sure what your point is. If you'd like a &lt;datatbase2> tag to ignore whitespace around pipes, you can instruct it to consider it part of the field separator by adding the following attribute:
 * Re Feature Request No. 2, one would be tempted to make a fully-functional sql database out of this extension, since it would be logical to request a JOIN feature as soon as the GROUP BY feature has been implemented. I see a number of open questions there:
 * How to express all this in attributes to &lt;dt2-showtable> in a way that remains understandable.
 * How to implement all this in code that remains maintainable.
 * How to ensure efficiency of such queries.
 * I'm unlikely to find solutions in the near future. As an alternative, I'd suggest to use the Lua interface, query all records you need, and do further transformations on Lua level. This is clearly not efficient for large amounts of data, but the extension is not suitable for large amounts of data anayway.