On 12-Nov-2003 Tim Bunce wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 01:48:14PM -0000, Martin J. Evans wrote:
>> Tim,
>> 
>> Whilst I'm trying to narrow this issue down to just DBI or DBD::ODBC here is
>> a
>> level 2 trace (against the now installed DBD::ODBC 1.06):
>> 
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] DBD-ODBC-1.06]$ perl -w x.pl 
>>     DBI 1.38-nothread dispatch trace level set to 2
>>     -> DBI->install_driver(ODBC) for linux perl=5.008 pid=22209 ruid=1000
>> euid=1000
>>        install_driver: DBD::ODBC version 1.06 loaded from
>> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux/DBD/ODBC.pm
>>     <- install_driver= DBI::dr=HASH(0x81ea584)
>>     -> data_sources for DBD::ODBC::dr (DBI::dr=HASH(0x81ea584)~0x8242454
>>     undef undef)
>> Usage: DBD::ODBC::dr::data_sources(drh, attr = NULL) at
>> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux/DBI.pm line 964.
> 
> Okay. The question now is were did the two undefs in the arguments
> to $drh->data_sources come from?

Having stepped back to DBI 1.35 and worked forward upgrading what I thought I'd
done before I can no longer duplicate the problem. However, I suspect a DBI 1.38
release candidate perhaps?

See http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg02376.html
and
http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg02377.html

So I guess I still had a release candidate on my machine - sorry for that, but
perhaps there should be some more obvious way of identifying release candidates.

Martin
-- 
Martin J. Evans
Easysoft Ltd, UK


> Tim.
> 
>> >> my @data_sources = DBI->data_sources('ODBC');
>> >> print "Data sources:\n\t", join("\n\t",@data_sources),"\n\n";
>> >> 
>> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] DBD-ODBC-1.06]$ perl x.pl 
>> >> Usage: DBD::ODBC::dr::data_sources(drh, attr = NULL) at
>> >> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux/DBI.pm line 964.
>> > 
>> > sub data_sources {
>> >     my ($class, $driver, @other) = @_;
>> >     my $drh = $class->install_driver($driver);
>> >     my @ds = $drh->data_sources(@other);
>> >     return @ds;
>> > }
>> > 
>> > So $class would be "DBI", $driver would be "ODBC" and @other would be
>> > empty.
>> > So then data_sources should be called with only the $drh as a parameter
>> > and that shouldn't cause an error.
>> > 
>> > Could you post a level 2 trace so we can see what's going on?
>> > 
>> >> perldoc DBI appears to say:
>> >>          @data_sources = DBI->data_sources($driver_name, \%attr, $dbh);
>> >> under SYNOPSIS and:
>> >>              @ary = DBI->data_sources($driver);
>> >>              @ary = DBI->data_sources($driver, \%attr);
>> >> under "data_sources"
>> >> 
>> >> The above code works fine with DBI 1.13 and DBD::ODBC 0.28.
>> > 
>> > It would be more helpful if you could narrow it down to one changed
>> > module instead of two. Also note that although the code that's failing
>> > is 'in' the driver, it's actually supplied by the DBI that's installed
>> > at the time the driver is compiled and installed.
>> > 
>> > Tim.
>> 

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