On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 08:03:01AM +0200, H.Merijn Brand wrote: > On Thu 29 Apr 2004 18:13, Tim Bunce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Now I know that DBI does not have a link_info method (yet), and I was > > > wondering if there are plans for something like that? > > > > > > This reports the referential integrety links. (foreign keys in Oracle) > > > > Er, do you mean foreign_key_info() that's in the DBI docs? > > <blush>Yes</blush> > > I was clearly looking for the word "link", since foreign key info in my world > belongs to Oracle, and I don't like Oracle.
Perhaps you could forgive Oracle a little by spreading the blame among many other databases and international standards :) > Now the docs state that foreign_key_info () does not allows search patters. My > function does. Is that allowed, or shall I just bring it back from like to = ? Ideally default to using the documented behaviour and add a driver-specific method attribute to enable patterns. > > (Since February 2002 :-) > > Furthermore, the docs start of with the fact that it is experimental and may > change. Is that still true after 2 years? I'll remove that note, and the ones on table_info() and primary_key_info(). > Hey, you just made me find out that I support more of the DBI that I thought I > was. More coverage coming up :) Expect 0.40 in May 2004. :-) Tim.
