On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 02:46:43PM +0100, Martin J. Evans wrote: > >The only thing I'm not sure about is whether $sth->{NUM_OF_FIELDS} is always > >set by $dbh->prepare, or whether some DBMS can't set it until you do > >$sth->execute. > > Right now, I am unsure of that too.
Some can't at all, some don't as an optimization, and code using a DBI proxy generally doesn't either. Tim.