Well isn't he is calling with the alias 'fetch' and he is calling it in I think
scalar context
my ($row) = $s->fetchrow_array;
vs
if ($price_sth->fetch)
There is the odd chance that he is doing the SQL against a 'view', 'cursor'
or alike but I doupt that is it.
> Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 13:25:03 +0000
> From: martin.ev...@easysoft.com
> To: davidni...@gmail.com; dbi-users@perl.org
> Subject: Re: Surprising DBD::Oracle error raised
>
> On 04/02/14 19:36, David Nicol wrote:
> > $price_sth->execute;
> > my ($o_file_price) = $price_sth->fetchrow_array();
> > if ($price_sth->fetch) {
> > $this->log_error('ERROR: scalar select returned second row at
> > %s line %d', __FILE__, __LINE__);
> > }
> >
> >
> > I expected the fetch to return undef, but it throws an Oracle error.
> > My best ignorant guess here is that fetchrow_array does some cleanup
> > on one-row datasets, but that isn't documented.
> >
> > Advise?
> >
> >
>
> That is in deed interesting. When I run the following with DBD::ODBC to MS
> SQL Server:
>
> use strict;
> use warnings;
> use DBI;
>
> my $h = DBI->connect();
> eval {
> $h->do(q/drop table mje/);
> };
>
> $h->do(q/create table mje (a int)/);
> my $s = $h->prepare(q/insert into mje values(?)/);
> $s->execute(1);
> $s->execute(2);
>
> $s = $h->prepare(q/select * from mje where a = 1/);
> $s->execute;
> my ($row) = $s->fetchrow_array;
> print "$row\n";
> $row = $s->fetch;
> print "$row\n";
>
>
> I get:
>
> 1
> Use of uninitialized value $row in concatenation (.) or string at
> mje/fetch_off_end.pl line 20.
>
> However, I get the same with DBD::Oracle so how is you code different from
> the above.
>
> Martin
