JupiterHost.Net [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > It is much more easily portable.
> >
> >
> > Suppose you have a real query:
> >
> >>
> >> select a.foo, b.bar.c.baz
> >> from
> >> a, b, c
> >> where .....
> >>
> >> The 0= 1 method works for that too. Contrast that with parsing the
> >> from clause and the where clause to create a tabel catalog query. Yuk.
>
> How can you gaurantee all DB engines will return the column names with
> no value on an empty query?
>
> For instance I'd expect fetchall_hashref() to return {} on a query with
> no results...
It doesn't matter what fetchall_hashref() returns. You get the list of
columns from $sth->{NAME}.
Ronald
