DBD::mysql 4.019 Released

2011-05-09 Thread Patrick Galbraith
Dear Perl and MySQL enthusiasts, I’m pleased to announce the release of DBD::mysql 4.019. I’m especially pleased because there are some new enhancements and features that have been provided by contributions from the community: * Asynchronous support, added by Rob Hoelz. This is a new feature to

Decoding data from the database in DBD

2011-05-09 Thread Martin J. Evans
I've recently had an rt posted (http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=67994) after a discussion on stackoverflow (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5912082/automatic-character-encoding-handling-in-perl-dbi-dbdodbc). In this case the Perl script is binding the columns but the data

Re: DBD::mysql 4.019 Released

2011-05-09 Thread Tim Bunce
On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 02:24:21PM -0400, Patrick Galbraith wrote: You can make a single asynchronous query per MySQL connection; this allows you to submit a long-running query to the server and have an event loop inform you when it’s ready. That's great, but... An asynchronous query is

Re: Decoding data from the database in DBD

2011-05-09 Thread Tim Bunce
On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 07:42:53PM +0100, Martin J. Evans wrote: I've recently had an rt posted (http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=67994) after a discussion on stackoverflow (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5912082/automatic-character-encoding-handling-in-perl-dbi-dbdodbc).