Re: cursor.description, functions, and comments -- bug?

Milt Epstein <mepstein-nzINlOoChub2fBVCVOL8/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.db.cx-oracle
Message-ID <[email protected]>
OK, thanks for the response; I tried the alternatives mentioned in the
other response, and they do confirm that this is an Oracle issue, and
there are easy workarounds (and it doesn't really cause a problem, as
long as you anticipate the behavior).


On Fri, 4 Jul 2014, Vladimir Ryabtsev wrote:

> 2014-07-04 0:03 GMT+04:00 Milt Epstein <mepstein-nzINlOoChub2fBVCVOL8/[email protected]>:
> 
> > As you can see, the name of the second column has the comment line
> > appended to it
> >
> 
> This is well-known Oracle issue: when you have a comment after an
> expression the comment becomes column header. I don't think its by-design,
> but I also don't think it should be considered as bug. You should just
> remember about it.
> Anyway it is not related to cx_Oracle.
> 

Milt Epstein
Applications Developer
Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
mepstein-nzINlOoChub2fBVCVOL8/[email protected]

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