Re: Prepare and prepare ?

On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, David Wheeler wrote:

> On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 07:42 PM, Rudy Lippan wrote:
>
> Oh, well we can create a branch for the old version. Bruce, do you have
> a CVS tag convention that you like to use?
>
> > As for CPAN, should I go ahead set up a PAUSE account (I need to
> > anyway)
> > for making the dev release, or do you want to handle making the
> > releases?
> > (I warn you, though, that I am planing on releasing quite often until I
> > get a release that is stable enough for a production environment ;) )
> > If
> > the former what would need to be done to get CPAN to pick up my
> > uploads as
> > part of DBD::Pg?
>
> Either way. I can give you ownership if you like, but even if I don't
> you can still upload releases. Let me know your preference.
>

I will go fill out the PAUSE account form tomorrow morning, & when I do
I will ask if ownership is required.

> > I signed up for the DBD::Pg project on gborg.org few days ago, so what
> > do
> > I need to do to get CVS commit access?
>
> Tell me your GBorg login name and I'll give it to you.
>

rlippan

> > Yes. PostgreSQL's PREPARE wants a list of column types when you call
> > prepare, so as proof of concept I did a (varchar, varchar, varchar...)
> > for
> > the column types, but that ends up breaking some things (like UPDATE
> > INSERT, and when it checks an operation for castability).
>
> Tom has made some mumblings about making this easier, but I don't know
> if anything has been done. But I was under the assumption that if you
> used "text" for the data types that they would be cast without too much
> trouble.
>

Maybe I will go over to PostgreSQL hackers and cause some trouble ;) It is
a *major* pain. I looked at PostgreSQL & it looks do-able, just
non-trivial.

-r