On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 09:40:17PM -0700, Jonathan Leffler wrote:
> DBD::Informix 0.95 introduced the internal tables function; no-one
> should still be using any earlier versions of DBD::Informix than
> 1.00.PC1, so the 'sad hack' can go - especially since it actually
> doesn't work reliably for Informix anyway.
Yeap. That's what I thought. Hence the 'todo' list entry. Thanks for
the confirmation.
> I note that the DBI (v1.42 RC1, but I don't think it changed) version
> does not handle schema names containing quotes:
>
> CREATE TABLE """""".blanketyblank (...);
>
> This is a valid table called blanketyblank owned by (belonging to
> schema) double-quote, double-quote in an ISO-compliant SQL database.
> Granted, that's kinda esoteric, but if you're worrying about quoting
> stuff just in case, hadn't you better worry about all the cases that
> might just occur?
Of course, and it seems to work just fine:
$ perl -w -MDBI -e 'warn DBI->connect("dbi:NullP:")->quote_identifier(undef, q{""},
"blanketyblank")'
""""""."blanketyblank" at -e line 1.
Tim.
