On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 05:04:35PM -0700, Dean Arnold wrote: > Tim wrote: > >On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 09:36:26AM -0700, Dean Arnold wrote: > > > >>I may have missed this in the archives, but google > >>didn't shed any light, so here goes... > >> > >>DBI currently defines a readonly ParamValues $sth attribute; > >>is there a need for an equivalent ParamTypes attribute ? > > > > > >Yeap: http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?q=ParamTypes%20bunce > > Thought I saw this somewhere before (my googlewhacking has been > terrible lately). > > Details: > > Is this something that drivers are expected to implement, or will > DBI pick up the info from the bindXXX() calls ?
Drivers. Could you send me a doc patch based on my emails in that thread? Tim. > If the latter, will it be overridable ? My target DBMS has the ability > to explicitly specify param type info in the SQL, so in some cases, > the info would be available after prepare() but before anything > was bound.
