Re: DBD::PostgreSQL

[David Wheeler]

On Monday, November 18, 2002, at 09:44  AM, Tim Bunce wrote:

Just to be sure this is clear, begin_work is *just* an alternative
way to set AutoCommit off till the next commit or rollback. The
application is free to just set AutoCommit explicitly as needed.

The *only* time a driver needs to consider the BegunWork attribute
is immediately after a commit or rollback.

Okay, thanks for the clarification, Tim.

Should need to "parse" in the formal sense, no full grammar is
needed, it's just a very quick skim through the string. If done in
C it should be too cheap to worry about. Especially as it's only
done at prepare() time, not execute().

Okay. I'm used to thinking about things in Perl time, so I'm not quite sure about the expense of the c code stuff. Thanks for the tip.

Would binding a string type to an integer (etc) placeholder work?
If so, just ignore the types and bind everything as strings.
That's exactly what DBD::Oracle does.

Well, it wouldn't work for bytea columns, but that's true with non-prepared statements already, anyway. Interesting idea, and I think you may well be right.

Tom, can you confirm?

Thanks,

David

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