On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 02:55:51 -0000, "Greg Sabino Mullane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > > > values are hashrefs of type information in the same form as that > > provided to the various bind_param() methods > ... > > > I'm not sure why the values of the keys are hash references unless > > multiple values are to be stored. If multiple values per key are stored > > what are they typically? I can only find one DBD which implements > > ParamTypes (DBD::Pg) and unless I am mistaken it sets the values of the > > keys to a scalar value - the type of the parameter. > > Yes, it's scalar values in DBD::Pg. If I recall correctly, it was done that > way simply because it seemed better to return a simple name. To be 100% > accurate it should probably return a hashref because that's what bind_param > takes. In other words: > > $sth->bind_param('$1', 234, { pg_type => SQL_INTEGER }); > warn Dumper $sth->{ParamTypes}; > > gives: > > $VAR1 = { > '1' => 'integer' > }; > > When it should technically return: > > $VAR1 = { > '1' => { pg_type => 'SQL_INTEGER' } > }; > > However, bind_param currently saves the value to an internal form, without > saving how it got there, which makes the key of that inner hash ('pg_type') > difficult to show. Because the value, SQL_INTEGER, is really a constant, it's > equally difficult to know to output 'SQL_INTEGER' - we'd really have to output > the number it maps to. > > I can easily adjust ParamTypes in DBD::Pg to give a hashref, if that's > what you end up doing for DBD::ODBC Me too, if that's what is better. It's new and probably nobody uses it. I just implemented it to be as complete as possible while fixing and implementing other stuff. /me still hopes for next actions on logging /me still hopes on nextr actions on DBD::File -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using & porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x, 5.11.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23, and 11.31, SuSE 10.1, 10.2, and 10.3, AIX 5.2, and Cygwin. http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/