Prof Brian Ripley wrote: [...]>
You asked elsewhere why RMySQL does not use it, but AFAIK it predates the mechanism. RODBC and XML have only used it recently.
Actually, Luke suggested it be used when DBI was just forming:
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-db/2001-October/000028.html
-- Jeffrey Horner Computer Systems Analyst School of Medicine 615-322-8606 Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University
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