On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 23:34 +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > 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. > > How about making both qmark and named the minimum required > parameter styles ?!
Sounds good to me. -- Carsten Haese http://informixdb.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ DB-SIG maillist - DB-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/db-sig
