Re: DBI v2 - The Plan and How You Can Help

2005-07-11 Thread Darren Duncan
I have an additional reply to the following ... At 10:25 PM +1000 7/9/05, Adam Kennedy wrote: In any case, I still propose that DBI2 split the driver interface into Roles. The main DBI2::Role::Transport role does ONLY what DBI does best now. That is, connecting to the database, preparing and

Re: DBI v2 - The Plan and How You Can Help

2005-07-11 Thread Sam Vilain
Adam Kennedy wrote: But I _would_ certainly like to see schema/table stuff separated from the base connection/query functionality. While I'm on the topic of DBI, one other feature I'd like to see would be something like better support for large objects or various types. Perhaps you have some

Re: DBI v2 - The Plan and How You Can Help

2005-07-11 Thread Adam Kennedy
No - you don't seem to understand. The challenge-response protocol can ask someone for the RSA key fob number this time, their mother's maiden name the next time, their employee number the time after that, and nothing on the fourth occasion. You cannot predict what the extra information

Re: DBI v2 - The Plan and How You Can Help

2005-07-11 Thread Dean Arnold
RE: Placeholders: since DBIv1 already supports both forms of PH's, I see no reason to deprecate or abandon either form. Furthermore, to my knowledge, none of (ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET) has abandonded or deprecated the ? form, so I don't see the need for DBI to. RE: LOBs and SQL Parse Trees: having

Re: DBI v2 - The Plan and How You Can Help

2005-07-11 Thread Darren Duncan
At 6:30 PM -0700 7/11/05, Dean Arnold wrote: RE: SQL Parse Trees (or other non-SQL query input) Since none of (ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET) seems compelled to impose this concept on driver writers, I don't see why DBI should be the vanguard. I should emphasize that I never expected to be able to send

Re: DBI v2 - The Plan and How You Can Help

2005-07-11 Thread Dean Arnold
BTW: If you need a list of DBD's meeting said requirement, let me know, I just pulled one down. Sure, send it over. [ ] DBD-ADO-2.94.tar.gz 31-Jan-2005 02:4041k GZIP compressed docume [ ] DBD-ASAny-1.13.tar.gz 31-Oct-2003 15:0030k GZIP compressed docume [ ]