Author: timbo
Date: Wed Mar 3 04:05:28 2004
New Revision: 179
Modified:
dbi/trunk/DBI.pm
Log:
Tweak connect and installed_versions docs.
Modified: dbi/trunk/DBI.pm
==============================================================================
--- dbi/trunk/DBI.pm (original)
+++ dbi/trunk/DBI.pm Wed Mar 3 04:05:28 2004
@@ -2325,6 +2325,7 @@
will die
on a driver installation failure and will only return C<undef> on a
connect failure, in which case C<$DBI::errstr> will hold the error message.
+Use C<eval { ... }> if you need to catch the "C<install_driver>" error.
The C<$data_source> argument (with the "C<dbi:...:>" prefix removed) and the
C<$username> and C<$password> arguments are then passed to the driver for
@@ -2447,8 +2448,10 @@
Due to the potentially high memory cost and unknown risks of loading
in an unknown number of drivers that just happen to be installed
on the system, this method is nor recommended for general use.
-It is primarily intended as a quick way to see from the command
-line what's installed. For example:
+Use available_drivers() instead.
+
+The installed_versions() method is primarily intended as a quick
+way to see from the command line what's installed. For example:
perl -MDBI -e 'DBI->installed_versions'
