Re: State of DBD::mysql maintenance

2013-06-29 Thread Lyle
On 29/06/2013 11:09, demerphq wrote: On 28 June 2013 04:07, Paul DuBois p...@snake.net wrote: On Jun 27, 2013, at 8:56 PM, Lyle wrote: On 28/06/2013 02:34, Paul DuBois wrote: On Jun 27, 2013, at 8:16 PM, Lyle wrote: On 27/06/2013 22:22, Tim Bunce wrote: If you're a DBD::mysql user and care

Re: State of DBD::mysql maintenance

2013-06-27 Thread Lyle
MySQL *5* support. I was talking to Peter about extra hacking sessions at our last Perl meet. I'll make sure this is on the agenda. Lyle

Re: State of DBD::mysql maintenance

2013-06-27 Thread Lyle
On 28/06/2013 02:34, Paul DuBois wrote: On Jun 27, 2013, at 8:16 PM, Lyle wrote: On 27/06/2013 22:22, Tim Bunce wrote: If you're a DBD::mysql user and care about the future of the code, please help out. I felt the same when I came across this during my research. I didn't have a great deal

Re: DBI::Test

2013-04-27 Thread Lyle
trmjoa with a possible new member soon: Vince Willems You can watch the effort in https://github.com/perl5-dbi/DBI-Test The notes made in Lancaser are in https://github.com/perl5-dbi/DBI-Test/blob/master/sandbox/qa2013-notes.txt ... All sounds like a good effort :) Lyle

Re: DBD::mysql - bit worrying

2013-04-18 Thread Lyle
On 18/04/2013 20:09, Paul DuBois wrote: On Apr 18, 2013, at 12:07 PM, Patrick Galbraith wrote: Lyle, To be certain, they don't wish to kill DBD::mysql. They are really trying to define what Oracle supports and what they do not. The were very helpful in painstakingly migrating the bugs from

DBD::mysql - bit worrying

2013-04-11 Thread Lyle
Hmm... Got a reply to my bug report and it's a bit worrying: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=68266 Seems like MySQL don't want to directly support DBD::mysql any more. Whether you like mysql or not, that's a heavily used DBD. Lyle

Defining type_info Was: DBIstcf_DISCARD_STRING and DBIstcf_STRICT

2013-02-05 Thread Lyle
On 05/02/2013 09:09, Martin J. Evans wrote: On 05/02/13 00:46, Lyle wrote: Hi All, I just submitted bug 83132. It's nothing major, but after upgrading to a newer DBI my comparison tool reported SQL_CHAR and SQL_NUMERIC as DBIstcf_DISCARD_STRING and DBIstcf_STRICT. I could be wrong, but it seems

Re: Defining type_info Was: DBIstcf_DISCARD_STRING and DBIstcf_STRICT

2013-02-05 Thread Lyle
for your feedback, much appreciated! Lyle

Re: Defining type_info Was: DBIstcf_DISCARD_STRING and DBIstcf_STRICT

2013-02-05 Thread Lyle
On 05/02/2013 14:53, H.Merijn Brand wrote: On Tue, 05 Feb 2013 14:33:38 +, Martin J. Evans martin.ev...@easysoft.com wrote: On 05/02/13 14:16, Lyle wrote: Drivers are also free to return extra driver-specific columns of information - though it's recommended that they start at column index

Re: Defining type_info Was: DBIstcf_DISCARD_STRING and DBIstcf_STRICT

2013-02-05 Thread Lyle
}, I just noticed that they don't mention this new column on their site: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms715410%28v=vs.85%29.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms714632%28v=vs.85%29.aspx Lyle

DBIstcf_DISCARD_STRING and DBIstcf_STRICT

2013-02-04 Thread Lyle
. Lyle

Re: RDBMS comparison tool

2013-02-04 Thread Lyle
mailing list as you suggested. Lyle

Re: RDBMS comparison tool

2013-01-08 Thread Lyle
On 07/01/2013 13:08, Lyle wrote: On 07/01/2013 10:43, H.Merijn Brand wrote: On Sun, 30 Dec 2012 02:53:33 +, Lyle webmas...@cosmicperl.com wrote: Hi All, Whilst working on another project it made sense to write a tool for comparing the various RDBMSs... Very useful indeed, but I'm

Re: RDBMS comparison tool

2013-01-08 Thread Lyle
On 05/01/2013 20:49, Darren Duncan wrote: On 2013.01.05 5:39 AM, Lyle wrote: I'm not overly familiar with Perl's internal handling of number. I guess if you have DECIMAL from a character string Perl will switch it out to an approximate the moment you do a calculation on it. Furthermore

Re: RDBMS comparison tool

2013-01-08 Thread Lyle
types, be that integer or character. Lyle

Re: RDBMS comparison tool

2013-01-05 Thread Lyle
. PostgreSQL do recommend using VARCHAR instead of CHAR. Due to the way they are implemented, VARCHAR is usually more efficient. Lyle

Re: RDBMS comparison tool

2012-12-30 Thread Lyle
not sure whether there is good reasoning behind them, or whether the DBD developers have been doing a best guess and we might possibly want to consider making things more consistent? Lyle -- Darren Duncan Lyle wrote: Hi All, Whilst working on another project it made sense to write a tool

Re: RDBMS comparison tool

2012-12-30 Thread Lyle
I could create in a new left column that wouldn't match the current left column. I'm open to suggestions if you want to send me some ideas. Lyle

Re: RDBMS comparison tool

2012-12-30 Thread Lyle
I'm sorry. Me and Darren are having this conversation on two separate lists (this one and TTM) that we are both part of, but have a substantially different subscriber base. This response was supposed to have gone to TTM. Lyle On 30/12/2012 16:45, Lyle wrote: On 30/12/2012 04:19, Darren

RDBMS comparison tool

2012-12-29 Thread Lyle
by the DBD driver, or whether this is already predetermined by the RDBMS... Let me know if this isn't interesting to you all and I'll keep it off list. Lyle

Re: Errors in DBI docs

2012-12-22 Thread Lyle
! Working on it. If no one comes back with a better resource, should I add a description of how to find the ODBC codes from the header files? Lyle

Errors in DBI docs

2012-12-21 Thread Lyle
to a google link. If I can help with this, let me know, I can submit patches. Lyle

Re: Add Unicode Support to the DBI

2011-09-10 Thread Lyle
5.10... So at this time the impact of such change could be significant. Lyle

Re: DBD::Pg emits some warnings despite PrintError = 0

2010-07-22 Thread Lyle
On 22/07/2010 07:40, Martin J. Evans wrote: Lyle wrote: Hi, So far I've seen: NOTICE: CREATE TABLE / UNIQUE will create implicit index FOO_BAR for table FOO Lyle Did you look at PrintWarn. Opps sorry, serves me right for sending email right before I go to sleep

DBD::Pg emits some warnings despite PrintError = 0

2010-07-21 Thread Lyle
Hi, So far I've seen: NOTICE: CREATE TABLE / UNIQUE will create implicit index FOO_BAR for table FOO Lyle

Re: Several on page POD section links broken

2010-07-20 Thread Lyle
Hi, Is it ok to send you a patch for this Tim? Lyle On 18/07/2010 03:37, Lyle wrote: The new naming of sections, such as DBI.pm#RaiseError_(boolean,_inherited) has broken a lot of in page links, such as L/RaiseError. Lyle

Several on page POD section links broken

2010-07-17 Thread Lyle
The new naming of sections, such as DBI.pm#RaiseError_(boolean,_inherited) has broken a lot of in page links, such as L/RaiseError. Lyle