On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 12:44:45PM -0800, David Wheeler wrote:
> On Sunday, November 24, 2002, at 12:28 PM, Tim Bunce wrote:
>
> I take it that bind_param($col, $val, SQL_BINARY) is equivalent to
> bind_param($col, $val, { TYPE => SQL_BINARY})?
Yeap.
> Right, I want to dump DBD::Pg's current bogus support for SQL_BINARY.
> The question is, should it be done now, for the next release, or should
> we document that it will disappear in the release after next, and maybe
> generate warnings in this release.
>
> I guess the question really is, how prevalent is the user of the broken
> SQL_BINARY binding in DBD::Pg today? I personally have never used it,
> and so would be inclined to dump it right now.
Since you're working on a major revision of the driver there's no harm in
dropping it and making that clear in the docs.
Maintenance releases of the current DBD::Pg should make it clear that
SQL_BINARY is deprecated.
Tim.
