On 24/06/15 13:24, Tim Bunce wrote:
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 09:12:16AM +0100, Martin J. Evans wrote:
I was recently confirming table_info special cases and discovered the case for
getting table_types cannot work.
table_info('','','','%')
should return a list of table types but it returns a list of empty strings
instead:
my @types = $h->tables('', '', '', '%');
print "all types:\n", join("xxx\n", @types), "\n";
# should output something like:
# "dbo"
# "INFORMATION_SCHEMA"
# "sys"
# and actually outputs:
xxx
xxx
It seems to be down to the following in DBI.pm:
sub tables {
my ($dbh, @args) = @_;
my $sth = $dbh->table_info(@args[0,1,2,3,4]) or return;
my $tables = $sth->fetchall_arrayref or return;
my @tables;
if ($dbh->get_info(29)) { # SQL_IDENTIFIER_QUOTE_CHAR
# problem is missing 3 in the slice below
@tables = map { $dbh->quote_identifier( @{$_}[0,1,2] ) } @$tables;
}
My test case missed this because currently it is returning 3 values but they
are all ''.
Adding 3 to the slice fixes the issue but unfortunately changes the data
returned from the deprecated tables method which now returns values like this:
"master"."dbo"."DBD_ODBC_LOB_TEST"."TABLE"
instead of (before)
"master"."dbo"."DBD_ODBC_LOB_TEST"
table_info is ok because it returns a result set and not a set of values pushed
through quote_identifier.
Thanks for the great analysis Martin.
Any comments?
The tables('', '', '', '%') call is a special case so it seems
reasonable to handle it as a special case in the code.
Tim.
diff --git a/DBI.pm b/DBI.pm
index a23bed8..6e0e592 100644
--- a/DBI.pm
+++ b/DBI.pm
@@ -1761,7 +1761,10 @@ sub _new_sth { # called by
DBD::<drivername>::db::prepare)
my $sth = $dbh->table_info(@args[0,1,2,3,4]) or return;
my $tables = $sth->fetchall_arrayref or return;
my @tables;
- if ($dbh->get_info(29)) { # SQL_IDENTIFIER_QUOTE_CHAR
+ if (defined($args[3]) && $args[3] eq '%' && # special case for
tables('','','','%')
+ grep {defined($_) && $_ eq ''} @args[0,1,2]) {
+ @tables = map {$_->[3]} @$tables;
+ } elsif ($dbh->get_info(29)) { # SQL_IDENTIFIER_QUOTE_CHAR
@tables = map { $dbh->quote_identifier( @{$_}[0,1,2] ) } @$tables;
}
else { # temporary old style hack (yeach)
adds a special case, passes DBI tests for me and passes my testing. There is no
need to quote the type as the DB should accept what it passed out.
tables('','','','%') now returns (for my ODBC DB):
SYSTEM TABLE
TABLE
VIEW
and no other calls to tables should be affected.
Martin