Tim Bunce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb/wrote:The DBI has a (currently private) method to determine the underlying database type. It was borrowed from DBIx::AnyDBD. Take a look at _dbtype_names() in DBI.pm
Yeah, I just updated DT::F::DBI to use that function.
I intend to extend it to use $dbh->get_info(17); (=SQL_DBMS_NAME), and give it a public api, in the medium term.
One of the problems I can see is that it just returns the type ODBC returns, which is already a problem for MySQL (returns /^mysqld-.*/[1])
That is an issue. But that's part of the reason why _dbtype_names() returns an ordered list. For "mysqld-foo-bar" it may return something like ("mysqld-foo-bar", "mysqld-foo", "mysqld").
and PostgreSQL (returns 'PostgreSQL', not 'Pg'[1]). I'm not sure what DBD::PgPP and DBD::PgSPI return, either.
Maybe DBI::_dbtype_names should normalise these DBMS names (e.g. to the corresponding DBD::* driver name, if one exists).
More likely that the DBI would supply a module that provides mapping between the sets of names.
BTW, is there a CVS server for DBI somewhere?
No. One day...
Tim.
Claus
[1] I have only looked at unixODBC's source code and not installed it, so I might be wrong there.
