Nevertheless, I've seen several instances of people not understanding that the "<*>" was added to the statement by DBD::Oracle as a marker when it reports the error.
Changing it to something unambiguous would help. Tim. On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 05:42:17PM +0800, Paul Gallagher wrote: > Hi Tim, > I don't think <*> is really an issue ... I understood Mike to be flagging > "staion_id" as the probable typo (hence ORA-00904), not <*>. > Paul > http://tardate.blogspot.com > > On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 5:00 PM, Tim Bunce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 07:44:33PM -0400, John Scoles wrote: > > > No the <*> is DBI way of pointing to where the error is. > > > > Seems like a common misunderstanding. > > > > Perhaps the "<*>" should be changed to something like "<ERROR NEAR HERE>" > > > > Tim. > >
