Tim Bunce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb/wrote:
> The DBI has a (currently private) method to determine the underlying
> database type. It was borrowed from DBIx::AnyDBD. Take a look at
> _dbtype_names() in DBI.pm
Yeah, I just updated DT::F::DBI to use that function.
> I intend to extend it to use $dbh->get_info(17); (=SQL_DBMS_NAME),
> and give it a public api, in the medium term.
One of the problems I can see is that it just returns the type ODBC
returns, which is already a problem for MySQL (returns /^mysqld-.*/[1])
and PostgreSQL (returns 'PostgreSQL', not 'Pg'[1]).
I'm not sure what DBD::PgPP and DBD::PgSPI return, either.
Maybe DBI::_dbtype_names should normalise these DBMS names (e.g. to the
corresponding DBD::* driver name, if one exists).
BTW, is there a CVS server for DBI somewhere?
Claus
[1] I have only looked at unixODBC's source code and not installed it,
so I might be wrong there.
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