Re: DBI and DBD::mysql pseudohash results set?

On Sat, 18 Sep 2004, Jochen Wiedmann wrote:

>Dan Bolser wrote:
>
>>I was thinking about loading the rows of a $sth results set into a
>>pseudohash so that the columns could be accessed by either the column name
>>or the column index.
>>  
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>You are of course free to do so. But what is it good for? DBI already 
>offers one or the other, on your choice, and I cannot remember a case 
>where I need both at the same time. Besides, you always have the DBI 
>metadata methods.


You are right, it should never be strictly necessary. However, I am
thinking about a convenience function such as 'doQuery' (exported by my
MySQL::Simple perl module).

In general (I think) it is convenient to only remember one function call
'doQuery', and have a very flexible results set returned.

In this way the user can hack together an sql report in a very short
amount of time. 

I will have to look into the metadata methods, as I am totally ignorant of
this feature.

Thanks for your help.

Anybody know about the future stability of the pseudohash?

Cheers,
Dan.


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>Jochen
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