Re: Perl - connecting to Oracle

I guess I can get that in for 1.22

Cheers
John Scoles
Tim Bunce wrote:
Nevertheless, I've seen several instances of people not understanding
that the "<*>" was added to the statement by DBD::Oracle as a marker
when it reports the error.

Changing it to something unambiguous would help.

Tim.

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 05:42:17PM +0800, Paul Gallagher wrote:
Hi Tim,
I don't think <*> is really an issue ... I understood Mike to be flagging
"staion_id" as the probable typo (hence ORA-00904), not <*>.
Paul
http://tardate.blogspot.com

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 5:00 PM, Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 07:44:33PM -0400, John Scoles wrote:
No the <*> is DBI way of pointing to where the error is.
Seems like a common misunderstanding.

Perhaps the "<*>" should be changed to something like "<ERROR NEAR HERE>"

Tim.

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