On Monday, November 18, 2002, at 12:32 AM, Ian Barwick wrote:
Count me in. I'm still in a slight state of shock after wondering overWell then, once I finish pasting together dbdimp.c and get everything to compile, I might ask for your help with a code review and writing tests.
to CPAN to find out how DBD::Pg was coming along ;-). At the
very least I can do testing and documentation, and quite possibly
"grunt work". Anything else will depend on how quickly I can
acquaint myself with the internals of DBI. (Note to self: do not believe
this is impossible or anything). Perl is my main
development language, and I used to work a lot with C.
For clarification: is DBD::Postgres intended to replace DBD::Pg, and are
any maintenance releases of the latter planned (e.g. in conjunction with
the PostgreSQL 7.3. release)?
And on Monday, November 18, 2002, at 06:47 AM, Jon Jensen wrote:
I didn't see any indication that David's planning on giving a new name toI expect that the PostgreSQL developers will include whatever DBI driver is the "official" DBI driver for PostgreSQL. At this point, I've just changed the name so I can feel free to hack it any way I like, including breaking backward compatibility where necessary (such as in the escape() method).
his rewritten PostgreSQL DBD driver, other than the subject of his email.
It would cause a lot of pain if the driver's name changed from DBD::Pg,
since every place people have DSNs in code or config files would have to
be updated ...
Would anyone actually consider using a different name than DBD::Pg? It
seems it would be a big pain with no benefit, and make it unclear which
driver users should use.
If I finish something that actually works, then I'll request some help from others comparing it to the behavior of the DBD::Pg driver. If it doesn't break backwards compatibility too much, then I would suggest that it become DBD::Pg 1.20 or 2.0 or something. But if its behavior is different enough (and it would need to be tried with a number of different applications to see what breaks, I think), then it would probably have to be released under a different name and people could switch if/when they could. But we're a long ways from determining that just yet.
Regards,
David
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