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>> my $host = $dbh->{pg_host};
>> 
>> If your driver doesn't have that, bug the author, or perhaps 
>> even petition to have it added to DBI.

> This may not be possible in the general case. For some databases (e.g.,
> Oracle, probably ODBC) you pass in an opaque identifier which is
> resolved by the library, not the DBD.

Sure, I was merely envisioning a generic wrapper in DBI that defaulted 
to returning nothing - it becomes each driver's responsibility to 
override and provide information to it. I'm not sure why Oracle 
couldn't do this as well - why not just peek at USERENV.SERVER_HOST 
via SYS_CONTEXT?

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End Point Corporation http://www.endpoint.com/
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