Author: timbo Date: Tue Jun 2 08:12:06 2009 New Revision: 12805 Modified: dbi/trunk/DBI.pm
Log: Better wording for bind_param() data type behaviour. Modified: dbi/trunk/DBI.pm ============================================================================== --- dbi/trunk/DBI.pm (original) +++ dbi/trunk/DBI.pm Tue Jun 2 08:12:06 2009 @@ -5490,9 +5490,10 @@ See L</"DBI Constants"> for more information. -The data type for a placeholder cannot be changed after the first C<bind_param> -call. The data type is said to be 'sticky'. Bind values passed to execute() -are bound with the data type specified by earlier bind_param() calls, if any. +The data type is 'sticky' in that bind values passed to execute() are bound +with the data type specified by earlier bind_param() calls, if any. +Portable applications should not rely on being able to change the data type +after the first C<bind_param> call. Perl only has string and number scalar data types. All database types that aren't numbers are bound as strings and must be in a format the
