Re: DBI::DBD: err/errstr/state - and how it has helped DBD::Informix

2004-12-15 Thread Tim Bunce
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 06:24:40PM -0800, Jonathan Leffler wrote: On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:47:39 +, Tim Bunce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 07:08:08AM -0800, Jonathan Leffler wrote: I had certainly managed to miss this change - which could easily account for some of

Re: DBI::DBD: err/errstr/state - and how it has helped DBD::Informix

2004-12-15 Thread Jonathan Leffler
Sorry for this flurry of half-researched questions... :-( I'll probably be able to submit another patch to DBI::DBD.pm out of this. On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 10:11:57 +, Tim Bunce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 06:24:40PM -0800, Jonathan Leffler wrote: On Tue, 14 Dec 2004

Re: DBI::DBD: err/errstr/state - and how it has helped DBD::Informix

2004-12-15 Thread Tim Bunce
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 07:27:59AM -0800, Jonathan Leffler wrote: Sorry for this flurry of half-researched questions... :-( I'll probably be able to submit another patch to DBI::DBD.pm out of this. Great! Thanks. Tim. p.s. Patch against subversion if possible. If not grab the latest from

Re: RFC: changes in DBD::Anydata DSNs

2004-12-15 Thread Darren Duncan
At 12:28 PM + 12/15/04, Jeff Zucker wrote: I am thinking of extending the DBD::AnyData DSN in three ways and would appreciate comments. If these are good, there will be equivalent changes for DBD::DBM and DBD::CSV. I can think of an additional change that would be useful while you're at it.

Re: RFC: changes in DBD::Anydata DSNs

2004-12-15 Thread Darren Duncan
At 1:12 PM + 12/15/04, Jeff Zucker wrote: Unfortunately, I don't see any way to do that. Some DBM implementations have different file naming conventions. For AnyData and CSV, files can be named anything. Even if we could recognize the names of the files we wouldn't necessarily know which

Re: RFC: changes in DBD::Anydata DSNs

2004-12-15 Thread Darren Duncan
At 2:13 PM + 12/15/04, Jeff Zucker wrote: Darren Duncan wrote: How much trouble would it be to actually look inside each file? Lots of trouble. Since DBD::DBM supports many DBM types and many MLDBM types, one file might be SDBM, another Berkeley_DB, etc. and each of those might use MLDBM