As a side note, I have in the past thought a HandleWarn option may be
useful, for instance to log warnings from the database or other custom
behavior. It could also be used to throw exceptions.
-Dan
On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 4:03 AM <p...@cpan.org> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> What do you think about adding a new attribute $dbh->{RaiseWarn} which
> cause that warnings reported by DBI drivers would behave like errors?
>
> For errors DBI has there $dbh->{PrintError} and $dbh->{RaiseError}
> attributes. First one is by default true and second one by default
> false. When PrintWarn is true, then all error from DBI driver are passed
> to perl's "warn" function and when RaiseError is true, then errors are
> passed to perl's "die" function. (Plus there is ability to register own
> error handler function)
>
> Currently DBI has only $dbh->{PrintWarn} attribute to control warnings.
> When is set to true (by default) all warnings from DBI driver are passed
> to perl's "warn" function.
>
> So I would propose to add $dbh->{RaiseWarn} attribute (off by default)
> to behave like $dbh->{RaiseError}, but for warnings.
>
> I have implemented this attribute and patch is there:
> https://github.com/perl5-dbi/dbi/pull/71/files
>
