Re: DBD::PostgreSQL

On Monday, November 18, 2002, at 09:44  AM, Tim Bunce wrote:

> Just to be sure this is clear, begin_work is *just* an alternative
> way to set AutoCommit off till the next commit or rollback. The
> application is free to just set AutoCommit explicitly as needed.
>
> The *only* time a driver needs to consider the BegunWork attribute
> is immediately after a commit or rollback.

Okay, thanks for the clarification, Tim.

> Should need to "parse" in the formal sense, no full grammar is
> needed, it's just a very quick skim through the string. If done in
> C it should be too cheap to worry about. Especially as it's only
> done at prepare() time, not execute().

Okay. I'm used to thinking about things in Perl time, so I'm not quite 
sure about the expense of the c code stuff. Thanks for the tip.

> Would binding a string type to an integer (etc) placeholder work?
> If so, just ignore the types and bind everything as strings.
> That's exactly what DBD::Oracle does.

Well, it wouldn't work for bytea columns, but that's true with 
non-prepared statements already, anyway. Interesting idea, and I think 
you may well be right.

Tom, can you confirm?

Thanks,

David

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