Is it possible to fetch the names of all columns in a table? How
about all tables in a database?
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Many thanks your helpful replies Gregory, Sikkandar, and Philip!
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I'm trying (unsuccessfully) to get DBI:Pg to insert NULL values into
a table. The following works in psql (and dbish):
'UPDATE null_test SET dwarf_1=NULL WHERE dwarf_2='Grumpy';'
It also works in a $dbh-do() statement:
But when I attempt the same with placeholders:
$cursor = $dbh-prepare(
At 5:27 pm +0200 25/4/01, Christian Hammers wrote:
BTW: Is there a Difference between $dbh-errstr and $DBI::errstr ?
I always used the last and it works, too.
$DBI::errstr refers to the last handle used within DBI, whereas
$dbh-errstr is associated with the current error flagged against the
At 7:57 pm +1000 5/4/01, Neil Lunn wrote:
I tend to not like this method. Certainly the duplication of field names
tends to break code. If you are really looking at storing array values in a
field for some purpose, you would be better off breaking up the scalar in
perl.
If the idea is just
I've asked for help on this topic before, but received no response.
Is there a better way of doing this?
The following is a sample script:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# sql_arrays.pl
use strict;
use DBI;
use Fcntl;
my $uid = 'database';
my $db_name = 'test';
my $table = 'array_test1';
my $pass = '';
Thanks for the help Neil and Bodo.
However, I do not want to store a Perl array in multiple rows, but in
a single SQL array.
At 7:49 pm +1000 4/4/01, Neil Lunn wrote:
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You're right. You have misunderstood the concept
[...]
Maybe you want to have an array field? You would still have to
