On Tue 13 Jan 2004 15:42, Tim Bunce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 04:59:38PM +0100, H.Merijn Brand wrote: > > > > > B. What changes you'd like to see in the DBD API > > > (that's the DBI<->DBD interface). > > > > · All dbh handel offspring (statement handles and such) > > available from the top level handle, for both status > > and cleanup purposes > > Yeap. A weakref cache is on the list.
Good! > > · Generic (DBI level) possibility to enable DBD debugging > > I enabled $dbh->{DBDverbose}, to be the DBD counterpart > > of DBI::trace (), and later renamed that - on Tim's > > request - to $dbh->{uni_verbose}, but IMHO the usefulness > > warrants a high level attribute > > A reorg of how TraceLevel works is on the list. You may remember me > posting about that some months ago. Having an 8bit (max) trace level > and then 16bits for specific topics and 8bits spare for driver topics. I remember, but I wanted to stress this. It's important for me (and my misbehaving database drivers - DBI and DBD do OK) Example: bug report: I cannot open blahdieblah, because I get an undocumented error -273 answer: That seems to be a programming error. In this case you can ignore it > Tim. -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using perl-5.6.1, 5.8.0 & 633 on HP-UX 10.20 & 11.00, AIX 4.2, AIX 4.3, WinNT 4, Win2K pro & WinCE 2.11 often with Tk800.024 &/| DBD-Unify ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/authors/id/H/HM/HMBRAND/