On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 01:49:55PM +0100, Steffen Goeldner wrote:
> Phillip Hellewell wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> > I'm using DBI and DBD:ODBC in my perl script. I'm also using
> > DBI::Const::GetInfoType. I was trying to get the database name using
> > $dbh->get_info( $GetInfoType{SQL_DATABASE_NAME} ), and it returned 0,
> > but $dbh->get_info( 16 ) worked! So I looked in
> > lib/DBI/Const/GetInfo/ODBC.pm, and sure enough, it is missing a case for
> > 16 in the %InfoTypes hash. This is the version of the ODBC.pm file I am
> > using:
> >
> > # $Id: ODBC.pm,v 1.3 2003/02/26 17:56:01 timbo Exp $
> >
> > Is my file outdated, or was SQL_DATABASE_NAME just left out by
> > accident? Was it left out on purpose?
>
> At that time I decided to omit this deprecated #define in sqlext.h:
>
> /* Deprecated defines from prior versions of ODBC */
> #define SQL_DATABASE_NAME 16 /* Use
> SQLGetConnectOption/SQL_CURRENT_QUALIFIER */
>
> Attached is a patch - if Tim likes it?
Is there any reason not to? I can't see any harm in including
deprecated names.
Tim.
