On Monday, July 14, 2003, at 02:03 AM, Tim Bunce wrote:
but I'll make it more clear that the whole \%attr param is sticky and drivers may ignore \%attr after the first call:
: The data type for a placeholder cannot be changed after the first
: C<bind_param> call. In fact the whole \%attr parameter is 'sticky'
: in the sense that a driver only needs to consider the \%attr parameter
: for the first call, for a given $sth and parameter. After that the
: driver may ignore the \%attr parameter for that placeholder.
Hi Tim, this sounds very helpful. I do admit that I can't claim the DBI have-read-all-docs award :) Had I thoroughly read the current version it'd have probably given me the right hint already about what to trace (at least at daytime hours ...).
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