Re: DBI and cheating with array interface?

On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 00:58:48 +0000, Mladen Gogala wrote:

> The only possible conclusion is that DBI is cheating. It doesn't actually
> use the array interface, it breaks the execute statement into an internal
> loop and bypasses the array interface.

Without this feature DBI is nothing but a toy. Forget about DBI2 and
alike. This has been requested forever. I am currently looking into Python
and cxOracle. If that supports array interface natively, I'm switching to
Python. If DBD::Oracle cannot support array interface for 12 years since
it has been created (it was created for Oracle V6 and SQL*Net V1.1) then
I doubt DBI will ever get useful. Without array interface in DBD::Oracle
I'm certainly not going to use DBI2. Fortunately, Python seems to have
taken a little bit more reasonable approach. I still fail to understand
how come that that thing didn't make it into DBD::Oracle for so long?
What is that dream about DBI2? DBI 1.48 is pretty useless without the
native support for the array interface. That's one heck of the way to
get people to learn Python. This has been requested forever. I don't
think that it will ever get incorporated into DBD::Oracle. Good luck
with array interface. You may get it in DBI 11f.

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