Re: feature request for SQL::Statement::Structure
"H.Merijn Brand" <[email protected]>
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On Sat, 7 Apr 2012 08:30:27 +0100, Jens Rehsack <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 7. April 2012 01:30 schrieb Jeff Anderson <[email protected]>: > > Greetings, > > > > I am wanting to take a SELECT statement and change the names of the > > tables without IMMEDIATELY executing that statement. I was hoping that > > SQL::Statement would solve the problem but apparently it can only > > EXECUTE a statement. Is this true? I could not find anywhere that > > deemed contrary in either the docs nor the source code. > > > > Seems to me that a lot of value is to be found in parsing statements, > > changing them and then PRINTING them out or storing them as scalars > > for execution at a later time. Would you be so kind as to provide > > this functionality? I honestly do not see any reason why it was not > > made available from the first release of this code. > > > > Sorry for the tone, but i was highly disappointed to learn that such a > > valuable and simple function was left out during my evaluation of this > > software. We will most likely use an alternative, but maybe the next > > person will not have to. Thanks in advance. > > Hey Jeff, > > please either open a ticket using RT or discuss it on dbi-dev@ or > probably dbi-users@. For now, I cc dbi-dev@. For feature > requests, cc'ing dbi-dev@ is always a good idea. > > To your mail itself: I absolutely don't know what you're talking about. Me neither. What /could/ help is a snippet of code that would do what you'd expect it to do as if SQL::Statement already supports what you want it to do. > No version information, nothing about the OS/distribution you use. > No test describing what you're doing and what's failing. > > Probably you can fix this and after that worry about your tone ;) -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using perl5.00307 .. 5.14 porting perl5 on HP-UX, AIX, and openSUSE http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/