On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 09:40:52PM -0000, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: > > > The finish() docs say: > > > > Calling C<finish> resets the L</Active> attribute for the statement. It > > may also make some statement handle attributes (such as C<NAME> and > > C<TYPE>) > > unavailable if they have not already been accessed (and thus cached). > > Sure, but why is NAME_lc cached and NAME not?
I'd guess that's a 'bug' in DBD::mysql. It implements the NAME attribute. The NAME_* attributes are implemented by the DBI. > And why the differing behavior depending on the DBD? I think DBD::mysql is the only driver to exhibit this behaviour. I'd be happy to see it 'fixed' but I don't know how difficult it would be. > I admit this is fairly corner case but it smells like there is some > subtle bug here. I'm confident a patch to cache NAME (and other sth metadata attribs) would be welcome - and probably quite simple. Tim.
