On 2007-06-20 23:15, Paul Boddie wrote: > On Wednesday 20 June 2007 22:51, Carsten Haese wrote: >> If I counted correctly, six votes were cast and the totals are: >> >> qmark 3 >> named 4 >> numeric -1 >> format -5 >> pyformat -2 >> >> So the winner seems to be "named" unless six votes aren't enough to >> constitute consensus. > > Well, as was pointed out already, qmark is part of the SQL standard and > should > feature as part of the absolute minimum level of support for parameters in > the DB-API. I've seen named and numeric in Oracle environments only, and I'm > not convinced that in my last excursion into Oracle JDBC territory those > paramtypes were even permitted, even though Oracle likes to break standards > and conventions wherever it feels like it.
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