Well, yes, but only the general comment that these catalog methods ought to return consistent values across different types of underlaying databases/drivers.
And, I'm looking forward to the Unify implementation and the associated docs as well :) Todd Zervas tazer...@earthlink.net -----Original Message----- >From: "H.Merijn Brand" <h.m.br...@xs4all.nl> >Sent: Mar 8, 2010 12:54 AM >To: dbi-dev@perl.org >Subject: Re: column_info () vs type_info () > >On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 16:10:53 +0100, "H.Merijn Brand" ><h.m.br...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > >> I see a big difference in what $sth->{TYPE} returns (and the name) and >> what column_info () - if implemented - is returning. > >Does no-one have an opinion on this? > >I'd like to finish the Unify implementation. >And maybe even add some docs to DBI > >-- >H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger 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, OpenSuSE 10.3, 11.0, and 11.1, AIX 5.2 and 5.3. >http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ >http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/