Re: how to find out column types?

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From: Ted Zlatanov
Subject: Re: how to find out column types?
Date: 15:34 on 22 Dec 2004

On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, tony-cdbitalk@xxxxx.xxx wrote:

On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 02:28:11PM -0500, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
>> > What do you mean by 'type'?
>> Whatever the database backend means :) For MySQL this could be INT(12)
>> with whether is is NULLable, for example.  I know DBI has methods for
>> this, but Class::DBI::Column could provide a nice interface to them.
>> The raw DBI methods are complex and need a db handle, and I was hoping
>> to avoid them.
> 
> Sounds like a good idea to me. Patches welcome :)

Should I put the code in Class::DBI or Class::DBI::Column or somewhere
else?

If C::D::Column, I'll cache the DBI call's results somehow so that
repeated column type checks don't go back to the DBI layer.

Ted

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how to find out column types?
Ted Zlatanov 18:54 on 21 Dec 2004

Re: how to find out column types?
Tony Bowden 18:58 on 21 Dec 2004

Re: how to find out column types?
Ted Zlatanov 19:28 on 21 Dec 2004

Re: how to find out column types?
Peter Speltz 08:05 on 22 Dec 2004

Re: how to find out column types?
Tony Bowden 08:58 on 22 Dec 2004

Re: how to find out column types?
Ted Zlatanov 15:34 on 22 Dec 2004

Re: how to find out column types?
Tony Bowden 17:04 on 22 Dec 2004

Re: how to find out column types?
Ted Zlatanov 17:11 on 22 Dec 2004

Re: how to find out column types?
Tony Bowden 01:08 on 23 Dec 2004

Re: how to find out column types?
Stephen Quinney 07:51 on 23 Dec 2004

Re: how to find out column types?
Simon Flack 13:17 on 23 Dec 2004

Re: how to find out column types?
Ted Zlatanov 16:05 on 23 Dec 2004

Re: how to find out column types?
Peter Speltz 07:55 on 24 Dec 2004

Re: how to find out column types?
Ted Zlatanov 19:38 on 28 Dec 2004

Re: how to find out column types?
Simon Flack 21:29 on 28 Dec 2004

Re: how to find out column types?
Tony Bowden 03:55 on 29 Dec 2004

Re: how to find out column types?
Stephen Quinney 12:02 on 29 Dec 2004