Too late. It's already been released, and testing fairly well http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=DBI+1.632
On Sat, Nov 08, 2014 at 10:43:19AM +0100, H.Merijn Brand wrote: > https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=100188 > > DBD::File has an issue that might cause backward compat: > Now we have both a numeric TYPE attribute and a matching TYPE_NAME > attribute, but how much DBD::File uses might this break? > > MY opinion is that we should meet the DBI docs: return NUMERIC for the > TYPE attribute. All DBD::File consumers that ever depended on STRING > behavior depended on implementation (error) instead of docs Seems reasonable. But, while that's being developed and tested against a number of DBD's, should there be a DBI-1.633 release that undoes the breakage in the short term? Tim.
