On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 18:29:27 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, I'm wondering what resources (e.g. tutorials) are available for > learning how to write my own DBI driver (DBD).
Did you read # man DBI::DBD ? > Is there any dummy/stub > DBD or an otherwise very simple DBD to learn from? How significant an > undertaking would it be to write the simplest possible dummy/stub DBD? > Is it possible to write it using Perl or another non-compiled > language? > > My overall goal is to modify a program so that instead of connecting > to Postgres it will insert data into my own "database," which will do > something very simple, e.g. print out the queries or forward the > queries onto Postgres (a do-nothing intermediate layer). > > Writing my own DBD seems like the cleanest way to approach this (since > nothing but the connection string need be changed in the code base), > but this is too significant an undertaking, then I will instead > consider simply going through the code base and replacing all calls to > the DBI's execute() method with calls to my own function. > > Any suggestions/advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. > > -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using Perl 5.6.2, 5.8.0, 5.8.5, & 5.9.2 on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00 & 11.11, AIX 4.3 & 5.2, SuSE 9.2 & 9.3, and Cygwin. http://www.cmve.net/~merijn Smoking perl: http://www.test-smoke.org, perl QA: http://qa.perl.org reports to: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [email protected]
