On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 19:54 +0000, Nick Kew wrote: > It'll have to wait for 1.3, 'cos it affects the API (despite not breaking > anything:-)
Actually, it just occurred to me that we could do this in a completely backward compatible manner, with (admittedly) somewhat ugly approach. We could modify apr_dbd_get_entry to allow negative numbers (col is signed int, so this should not be a problem), where -1 means "get the name of the first column" and so on. So, for APR 1.2.x, pseudo code would be (inside get_entry): if (col < 0) get_name(get_result_from_row(row), -col - 1); The driver structure would not expose get_name function until 1.3, of course, so everything would remain OK for inclusion in 1.2.x. Would this be something APR committers would be willing to entertain? -- Bojan
