On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 11:30:40AM -0500, Alex Pilosov wrote: > On 16 Nov 2001, Jason E. Stewart wrote: > > > from getting an array ref, but what is the advantage to blessing it? > So when in future passing a ref will mean something ELSE to DBI globally, > your postgresql-specific thing won't interfere. > > For the record, since I can't see just what else DBI could possibly be > doing with array refs as a parameter, I think blessing is indeed > unnecessary :)
It's hard to predict the future, but... The DBI will gain support for batch operations at some point. It's _probable_, but not certain, that they'll be a new execute_foo() method but if there isn't and execute() is reused then there may be problems. Tim.
