Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: > >> With reference to the rt I created "Support binding of integers so they >> are returned as IVs" at http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=49818 > > If I'm understanding you correctly, this was recently 'fixed' in DBD::Pg, > to accomodate JSON::XS as well. For the relevant code, see: > > http://svn.perl.org/modules/DBD-Pg/trunk/dbdimp.c > > and grep for "cast" >
I could do what DBD::Pg does here (and have to verify it works) but Oracle integers can be very large - too big to fit in an IV in some cases. I think the only person who knows if an integer is small enough to fit in an IV is the person calling bind_col and in any case, my situation is in fact that some of the database integers I need back as strings and some I want as integers. As a result, I think it is necessary to support the TYPE attribute to bind_col. 1. Does any DBD support TYPE in bind_col (I can't find any so far)? 2. Presumably if a DBD wanted to store the TYPE would it need to implement the bind_col (dbd_st_bind_col) method itself? Martin -- Martin J. Evans Easysoft Limited http://www.easysoft.com
