Announcement: prepared statement and embedded server support on Dev-2_9 CVS

Hello Users/Developers,

I have just committed support for prepared statements and MySQL  
embedded server support to CVS development branch Dev-2_9 (based off of  
2.900x code) for DBD::mysql. You can get this code to try out via:

cvs -d :pserver:[email protected]:/cvs/public login
cvs -d :pserver:[email protected]:/cvs/public co -rDev-2_9  
modules/DBD-mysql

To use server side prepare statements, all you really need to do is set  
the value "mysql_server_prepare" in the connect string:

my $dbh =  
DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:database=test;host=localhost: 
mysql_server_prepare=1", "","");

When you build DBD::mysql and run make test, after you first test  
without server side prepare statements, you can test with by exporting  
the environment variable MYSQL_SERVER_PREPARE

export MYSQL_SERVER_PREPARE=1

and then run 'make test' again. This stage will be improved in the  
future.

Also, for information about using the embedded server, please read the  
pod documentation found in the perl module itself.

For more information about prepared statements and how you can take  
advantage of them, please feel free to read my OSCON presentation:

http://patg.net/DBD.pdf

Kind regards,

Patrick Galbraith

Patrick Galbraith Senior Software Developer
[email protected] http://www.mysql.com

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