Re: DBD::mysql path forward

Dan Book <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.dbi.sybase.devel,gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.dbi.general
Message-ID <CABMkAVW9icJVo2MZRe=yH0d3=SJZDxJF1LnW3BiRY6zLbQRW9A@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 3:53 AM, Peter Rabbitson <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 09/12/2017 07:12 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday 12 September 2017 12:27:25 [email protected] wrote:
>>
>>> To prove fact that other DBI drivers (e.g. Pg or SQLite) had fixed
>>> similar/same UTF-8 issue as MySQL has and behave Perl-correctly, I
>>> would provide test cases so you would see difference between Pg,
>>> SQLite and mysql DBI drivers.
>>>
>>
>> And here is promised script:
>>
>>
> <snip>
>
> The script side-steps showcasing the treatment of BLOB/BYTEA columns,
> which was one of the main ( albeit not the only ) reason the userbase lost
> data.
>
> Please extend the script with a BLOB/BYTEA test.
>

I'm not sure how to usefully make such a script, since correct insertion of
BLOB data (binding with the SQL_BLOB type or similar) would work correctly
both before and after the fix.

-Dan
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