On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Tim Bunce wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 04:39:59PM -0500, Rudy Lippan wrote:
> > >
> > > Also, I am taking requests for features to be added in the next version of
> > > DBD::mysql; The list, as of right now, is:
> > >
> > > - Basic UTF-8 support
> > > - column_info()
>
> Tese, if any are not there already:
>
> - $dbh->last_insert_id
>
> - $sth->{ParamValues}
>
> - $dbh->data_sources
Added to the list. The first two are trivial to do, but I don't know about
the the third, but I don't expect it to be much harder than column_info(),
which looks like it is going to be the ugly one.
> - Use DBD::mysql::*->install_method (if DBD::mysql::*->can('install_method'))
> to install driver-private methods with mysql_* prefixes
> and deprecate the old func() versions.
Okay.
>
> - From the change notes in DBI 1.31:
> Change DBIS to DBIc_DBISTATE(imp_xxh) [or imp_dbh, imp_sth etc]
> Change DBILOGFP to DBIc_LOGPIO(imp_xxh) [or imp_dbh, imp_sth etc]
> Any function from which all instances of DBIS and DBILOGFP are
> removed can also have dPERLINTERP removed (a good thing).
> (Will make DBI >= 1.31, now almost a year old, a prerequsite)
>
I think that these are used off and on in the code, so it would probably
be good to clean up the usage anyway. I guess DBD::Pg should do this too.
Appended to the list.
> What's the story with the new v4 protocol and server-side placeholders?
>
I'd like to do the v4 & server-side prepare in || with the changes above.
My plan at the moment is to do a 2.9004 release that ads the features that
are missing from the newer DBIs, and put the protocol/placeholders in a
3.0 dev branch. I have a project that I am about to start that will use
server-side placeholders so I will have a good testbed for the changes.
Rudy
