RE: (Fwd) DBI's method for reading [row x,field y]


Bob Hunter [mailto:catdogbeloved@xxxxxxxxx] wrote:

The list is dead. Forwarding the message to the list
is like dropping it in the bin. If you do not care
meeting user's problems, then why should I care using
DBI in the first place? I have your book, it is
verbose, but it does not answer to key questions.
Either you write a better book, or start changing
attitude with mails. After all, you do get royalties
from the book, don't you? So, you are paid, in a
sense, to answer to questions about the book itself.

The list is most definitely not dead. There were 10 messages sent to the list
yesterday, and 56 sent to the list last week.
Tim does care about solving user's problems. That, in fact, is why he forwarded
your message to the list. Tim is often too busy to answer questions himself,
but he has a whole community of users on this list who are happy to help answer
questions.

Additionally, Tim is not even the author of DBD::Pg; perhaps he feels someone
else on the list will be better qualified to answer your PostGres-related
question.

Tim gets royalties for having written the book. He doesn't get paid extra for
answering questions. And yet he answers them anyway, when he is able, or
forwards them to the list for other people to answer.

The only person who needs to change his attitude is you. If you're going to be
so ungrateful, maybe we just shouldn't bother to help you.

Ronald

P.S. BTW, fetchall_arrayref() is most definitely documented in perldoc DBI and
in the Programming the Perl DBI book. If you can't find it you must not be
looking very hard. Speaking of reading the documentation...

perldoc DBI

Please note that Tim Bunce does not maintain the mailing lists or the
web page (generous volunteers do that). So please don't send mail
directly to him; he just doesn't have the time to answer questions per-
sonally. The dbi-users mailing list has lots of experienced people who
should be able to help you if you need it. If you do email Tim he's
very likely to just forward it to the mailing list.

.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: fedora-list Digest, Vol 46, Issue 122
    ... Re: list subject (Tim) ... It's far quicker to switch over to the Fedora ... I read messages from the public lists. ... If you boot with your USB drives connected, ...
    (Fedora)
  • Re: OT: The moment Sarah won the debate....
    ... but WE gave YOU Israel. ... Jews are universally ... I've debunked your lists a dozen times already. ... You don't care about America. ...
    (rec.arts.theatre.musicals)
  • Re: TIP#308 Published: Tcl Database Connectivity (TDBC)
    ... simple app needs simple DBI, ... upvar $headingsVar headings ... pgintcl allows me to retrieve the resultset as a list of lists - ... The interface returns the resultset in one of several ways: ...
    (comp.lang.tcl)
  • Re: [kde] Why KDE4 is called KDE?
    ... drop an app -- or even an entire desktop environment or software ... actually taken the time to dig up these lists, probably subscribe, ... they care FAR more about KDE, simply by posting in the first place, than ... that we shouldn't be attacking ...
    (KDE)
  • RE: DBD::Oracle and m2o.pl
    ... The DBI list is a good first stop for all DBI ... > Oreilly lists it at: ... Give a hobbit a ring and he eats fish for an age. ... sender of the delivery error by replying to this message, or notify us by ...
    (perl.dbi.users)