On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 02:58:41PM -0800, David Wheeler wrote:
> On Sunday, November 24, 2002, at 05:30 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> >I think he is saying mention is as depricated in the current driver,
> >and
> >remove it when you release your major revision of the driver.
>
> Okay, I've made this change. Here's my commit message:
>
> ----------------------------
> date: 2002/11/25 22:52:20; author: theory; state: Exp;
> Added constants for common PostgreSQL data types, plus simple tests to
> make
> sure that they work. These are exportable via "use DBD::Pg
> qw(:pg_types);". Documented deprecatation of the undocumented (and
> invalid)
> use of SQL_BINARY in bind_param() and documented the correct approach:
> "bind_param($num, $val { pg_type => PG_BYTEA });". Removed invalid (and
> broken) support for SQL_BINARY in quote().
> ========================================================================
> =====
>
> Use of the "bind_param($num, $val, SQL_BINARY)" syntax still works,
> however, and doesn't throw a warning. Should it?
If it doesn't work then yes (if $h->{Warn} is set, see Driver.xst for examples).
Tim.
