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Re^6: Avoiding compound data in software and system designby Hue-Bond (Priest) |
on Apr 29, 2010 at 13:18 UTC ( [id://837540]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
And that is, all DBI needs to know is the first two fields of the DSN. The first must match 'dbi' (+-case); the second must match a module "DBD::<2ndfield>" that is installed locally. What comes after that is none of its concern. It just gets passed through to the loaded DBD driver. A half-way alternative would be to specify the driver separated from the DBD-specific stuff. Then this:
would become this:
Please note that this is not an API change request/suggestion ;). --
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