[DB-SIG] paramstyles, again (and now voting)

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 2007-06-20 23:15, Paul Boddie wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 June 2007 22:51, Carsten Haese wrote:
>> If I counted correctly, six votes were cast and the totals are:
>>
>> qmark 3
>> named 4
>> numeric -1
>> format -5
>> pyformat -2
>>
>> So the winner seems to be "named" unless six votes aren't enough to
>> constitute consensus.
> 
> Well, as was pointed out already, qmark is part of the SQL standard and should 
> feature as part of the absolute minimum level of support for parameters in 
> the DB-API. I've seen named and numeric in Oracle environments only, and I'm 
> not convinced that in my last excursion into Oracle JDBC territory those 
> paramtypes were even permitted, even though Oracle likes to break standards 
> and conventions wherever it feels like it.

How about making both qmark and named the minimum required
parameter styles ?!

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