Richard Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 10:12:41AM -0400, Jesse Guardiani wrote:
>> Well, I don't really see the point in adding it just to one driver.
>> The whole idea behind Dbi is that it's an abstraction layer, so I'd
>> like to keep things portable. Thanks for the response though.
>
> It's more of an abstraction layer for the programmer than for
> databases.
:) Yeah, I noticed. It's much easier to use than the stock MySQL driver.
Congrats on a nice design.
> It'd be very hard to truly abstract away the myriad
> differences between databases - eg. how would you emulate sub-selects
> or Postgres's Perl stored-procedures on MySQL; or the differences in
> date/timestamp representations between PostgreSQL and Informix?
That reminds me of another point: Did you use all of your sql_t
types when you wrote Dbi_mysql? I noticed that dates come back
as `String, even though you have a `Date type defined... what's
up with that?
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