On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 04:42:00PM -0700, Darren Duncan wrote: > Is it necessary for each DBI driver to have a prefix registered in > DBI itself, or is this only necessary when the driver wishes to > expose extra public methods? If the DBD doesn't expose custom > methods, can it be used without the prefix registration?
Yes. The only current use is for the install_method() method. Tim.