perl dbi
| From: | Dickerson, Monty | Date: | Wed, 16 May 2001 15:22:47 +0000 |
| Subject: | perl dbi | ||
| Groups: | php.windows | ||
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Tim Bunce, author of the Perl DBI, shares your reasoning. In the spirit of
perl (there's more than one way to do things), he offered both a virtualized
error message system (ODBC-like) and also the proprietary DB's error numbers
and messages. Of course, people used the proprietary error numbers and
messages almost exclusively, for the reasons you give.
cheers,
monty
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Lim [mailto:heyjohnlim@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 10:17 AM
> To: php-windows@lists.php.net
> Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] the /php/pear/DB abstraction
>
>
> Hello Monty,
>
> As an author of a database class library
> (http://php.weblogs.com/adodb) I
> can understand the need for good error messages.
>
> I decided in adodb to avoid using virtualised error messages
> because of this
> issue. It's more important to give good error messages than
> attempting to
> map
> to a virtualised error message system. Why? You normally just
> rollback on
> any error anyway, and the real error messages allow you to pinpoint
> the bug precisely.
>
> You might like to give it a test run.
>
> Regards, John
>