Re: Function Calling Methods

2008-05-21 Thread David E. Wheeler
On Wed, 14 May 2008 10:05:22 -0700, Martin Evens wrote: That is slightly more complicated than it looks. DBD::Oracle already magics a sth into existence for reference cursors but some databases can return more than one result-set from a procedure - e.g., SQL Server and the SQLMoreResults

Function Calling Methods

2008-05-14 Thread David E. Wheeler
Howdy dbi-devers, More and more lately, I'm writing database functions in PL/pgSQL (in PostgreSQL) or SQL (in MySQL and others) to do the heavy lifting of interacting with database tables. I've been thinking that I'd really love a DBI method to call these functions without having to do the

Re: Function Calling Methods

2008-05-14 Thread Martin Evans
David E. Wheeler wrote: Howdy dbi-devers, More and more lately, I'm writing database functions in PL/pgSQL (in PostgreSQL) or SQL (in MySQL and others) to do the heavy lifting of interacting with database tables. I've been thinking that I'd really love a DBI method to call these functions

Re: Function Calling Methods

2008-05-14 Thread Darren Duncan
I want to throw my support behind this idea in principle, that principle being that it is important to be able to invoke database stored routines efficiently and easily. In my case, considering that a dominant paradigm of Muldis D is to put all database access code in database stored routines,