On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 09:58:51PM -0400, Patrick Galbraith wrote:
> Jeffrey,
>
> Thank you very much for this patch - I have tons of mail and originally
> missed this. I've applied it and
> found that it failed with an earlier version of DBI, but once I updated
> DBI, it now passes along with Stas Beckman's patch he sent me for this a
> year or two ago.
>
> Do you know what the specific version of this is that this feature was
> added to DBI? I can put logic in the tests that ignore this test if the DBI
> version is not supporting it.
You could just do
... if $dbh->can('take_imp_data');
Tim.
> I'm going to include this with an upcoming 4.007 (this week) release.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Patrick
>
>
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>> Following on the heels of the DBI and DBD::Oracle patches, I figured getting
>> mysql
>> to work would be the next best step. Unfortunately I kept getting a glibc
>> free() error,
>> similar to the one here:
>>
>> http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.dbi.dev/2005/04/msg4039.html
>>
>> The problem is the imp_dbh contains a MYSQL structure, and part of this
>> structure
>> is pointers to other MYSQL structures - or, usually, back to the original
>> structure.
>>
>> When you take the imp_data and put it into another SV, its address in memory
>> changes,
>> so anything pointing to this struct is going to break.
>>
>> The simplest thing I found was to change the MYSQL struct to a pointer. The
>> other DBD
>> drivers I've looked at all use a pointer or an opaque handle, so it should
>> work. However,
>> it feels like a pretty extensive patch just to support an experimental
>> change. Try
>> it out and let me know what you think.
>>
>>
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