Re: Quotation

On Tue, 5 May 2009 12:08:53 +0100, Tim Bunce <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 04:06:47PM +0200, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
> > I've hit a failure, which I am not about if it is my fault or that I
> > have to blame something else
> > 
> >   $dbh->do ("drop table $_") for $dbh->tables ();
> > 
> > Now that DBI returns the tables quoted, I expect that to work.
> > 
> > DBD::CSV uses the current user name as schema name, so the table list
> > looks like
> > 
> >   $VAR1 = [
> >     '"merijn".testaa.csv',
> >     '"merijn".testab',
> >     '"merijn".testac',
> >     '"merijn".testad.txt',
> >     '"merijn".testae.csv',
> >     ];
> 
> [Ignoring the issue you're refering to]
> 
> Why should DBD::CSV support schemas at all?

Because it was in there from the start. (In fact it was in DBD::File).
Not that I /like/ it, nor see the use of it, but the default
schema-name for DBD-File is the owner of the folder in which the
datafile resides

> What value does that give?

beats me, but I'm sure I break things if I simply remove it

> What use-cases does it help?

I have just implemented f_schema in DBD::File, so I can disable the
darn thing with { f_schema => undef }

> What are the semantics of 'schemas' in DBD::CSV?

none that I am aware of

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