On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 6:45 AM, Daniele Varrazzo
<daniele.varra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 2:18 PM, Mike Bayer <mike...@zzzcomputing.com> wrote:
>
> Oh hi! If there is someone who has experience in how much effort it
> takes to beat every different driver into submission that's you :)
>
>
>>> - should execute(query) with no param go for a round of placeholders
>>> escape on the string as it would execute(query, {})?
>
>> I think I know what issue you're talking about. This seems much
>> more subtle of an issue than we would normally see in a pep-249 which
>> is overall very terse about each point.
>
> Still a baffling thing...
>
> - HAL, retrieve the even records please.
>
> - cursor.execute("select * from students where id % 2 = 0")
>
> - Now please retrieve only the ones born after the date D.
>
> - cursor.execute("select * from students where id % 2 = 0 and dob >= %s", [D])
>
> (some mysterious traceback)
>
> - Open the pod bay doors, HAL.
>
> I'd rather force people to specify % as %% regardless of the presence
> of parameters (in the case of other driver the problem would be with
> other characters - question marks, colons... - but it's probably the
> same).
>
>
>>> - placeholders style, of course...
>>
>> one positional and one named and that's it ....Annnnndddd:
>
> Maybe it's easy enough to use the most generic one ("%s" and
> "%(name)s"? "{}" and "{name}"?) and provide a conversion library to
> help implementing drivers using whatever different format they have to
> use?
>
This might be one of the only places where I think Oracle has made a
more robust and programmer-friendly design decision than Postgres.
The :param syntax of Oracle is good because it can't be confused with
valid SQL or PL/SQL syntax in the absence of query parameters.
Thanks,
Dan
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