Re: DBD::mysql path forward

Peter Rabbitson <[email protected]> Wed, 13 Sep 2017 09:53:28 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.dbi.sybase.devel,gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.dbi.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

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.