On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 10:50:07AM -0000, Avis, Ed wrote: > Tim Bunce wrote: > > >The DBI doc says: > > > >: Note that some drivers cannot provide valid values for some or all of > >: these attributes until after C<$sth-E<gt>execute> has been called. > > > >A statement handle should always have NAME, TYPE, NULLABLE etc > >attributes. It should never be an error to ask for them. But the > >value returned may be undef, for example, if the statement has not been > >executed, the execute failed, or it's not a select statement. > > If RaiseError is set, then shouldn't accessing one of these when it is > not available throw an exception rather than giving undef?
I don't think so. It's not an error, it's just unavailable (although you could argue it either way). Tim.
