On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 09:22:26PM -0700, Jonathan Leffler wrote:
> 
> Tim - I'm guessing that the mapping from old to new connect syntax is 
> bypassed by the use of $drh->connect() in place of DBI->connect.

Yes. All sorts of things are bypassed, take a look at the code for
DBI->connect and you'll see what I mean.

I would *strongly* discourage connecting that way for general applications.
I'll add a note about that to the docs.

> Is that something that DBI can handle, or is it just an inevitable 
> consequence of the old method of loading and connecting?

There has never been any need to use $drh->connect(). DBI->connect
"is the way".

Tim.

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