On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 10:05:46PM -0500, Rudy Lippan wrote:
> 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,
It's basically a selectall_arraref("show databases");
> but I don't expect it to be much harder than column_info(),
> which looks like it is going to be the ugly one.
Er, I don't follow you. I sent you the code to colum_info and it's
already in DBD::mysql.
> > 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.
Wasn't someone at mysql.com working on adding server-side prepare/placeholder
support? What happened to that?
> 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.
Okay.
Tim.
