Re: [DB-SIG] paramstyles, again

2007-06-03 Thread Carsten Haese
On Sat, 2007-06-02 at 20:42 +0200, Paul Boddie wrote: > Carsten Haese wrote: > > > > The same is true for InformixDB. The good news is that making a parser > > that locates parameter placeholders is not hard. Essentially it boils > > down to "Look for question marks and colons occurring outside of

Re: [DB-SIG] paramstyles, again

2007-06-03 Thread Vern Cole
By George, Michael, you are correct! I've spent about half of the night reading stuff from all over the Internet, and the two methods you suggest are the ones that make sense. I am sold. +1 on requiring support of 'qmark' and 'named' parameter styles. Implementors, like me, who are running qma

Re: [DB-SIG] paramstyles, again

2007-06-03 Thread Carsten Haese
On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 01:07 -0700, Vern Cole wrote: > I am sold. +1 on requiring support of > 'qmark' and 'named' parameter styles. Could I sell you on making numeric style required, too? > Implementors, like me, who are running qmark only > databases will have to parse the dictionary for 'nam