Re: Duplicate fields in select_hashref

"H.Merijn Brand" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.dbi.sybase.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:59:16 -0500, Erik Aronesty <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Just use the *_arrayref versions for multiple fields with the same name
> instead of hashref or slice{}

That is what I've shown. Bind_columns () or aliasing also works.

> You can't reliably refer to fields by name if they overlap.

indeed, which is what I have shown.
I'm not complaining here or filing a bug report. I'm probing for
opinions in how to document this.

I *do* think that count, count (*) mapping to count, count /is/ a bug.

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