Re: connecting()?

On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:14:04 -0700, "David E. Wheeler"
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Fellow DBIers,
> 
> I was just discussing writing a callback on connect () to change
> authentication (my correspondent wants to use realm files). But then I
> discovered to my disappointment that there is no support for callbacks
> on connect (). This makes sense, frankly, since the method is called
> before the callbacks are applied, and callbacks execute before the
> method, not afterward (at least for now).
> 
> But I've found great use by adding callbacks on connected (), so that
> they execute just after a connection. So I was wondering how folks
> felt about the idea of adding a connecting () method that executes just
> before the DBI tries to connect to the database? I think this would be
> a nice complement to connecting (), and instantly make a simple
> interface for adding a pre-connection callback, too.
> 
> Thoughts?

All in favour, if not only to be able to use $ENV{DBD_VERBOSE} and
$ENV{DBI_VERBOSE} to set verbosity on connection before it even starts!

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