[DB-SIG] DBAPI-2.0 clarifications

[Federico Di Gregorio]

Scavenging the mail folder uncovered brian zimmer's letter:

> I believe they are required to see the changes immediately.  Opening two
> connections is the only way to isolate the transactions.  Essentially, and
> please correct me if I'm wrong, a cursor is only a statement from a
> connection and has no transactional ability on it's own, so the connection
> must handle them as all together or commit on each one.

ok, this is clear. so what about putting this stuff in the DBAPI document?
just to avoid unneccesary quastions on the same argument in the future... 

> > ok. now, how are multiple SELECTs derived from calling executemany()
> > on a SELECT statement supposed to work? all the results should be
> > concatenated into a single set? or we can extend .nextset() to cover
> > this situation?
> 
> I have the same question.  Consider this example:
[example snipped]

can please the dbapi authors comment on this? thanx...

[snip]
> > "These two fields can probably be safely set to None" is, imho, not good
> > *unless* the api specifies that the two fields are optional. this is
> > why i am asking all that questions and why (in the future) i will probably
> > propose a little revision of the API to clarify the obscure points.
> 
> For what it's worth I set them to None as well.

ok. lets say that all the fields, from 2 onward are optional and should
be set to None if not implemented. what about putting this in the DBAPI?
DBAPI editor?

> I've included my small testing framework as an example of how I test.  I
> utilize PyUnit and can test just about any DB API 2.0 compliant
> implementation.  I essentially read an xml document describing the factory
> method which opens the connection and then run the connection through any
> number of tests.  It works in jython as well as cpython with no additional
> changes.  Try changing the sample 'test.xml' to your factory method and see
> if it works, I'd be quite curious.  It works perfectly well for mxODBC and
> zxJDBC at the moment as both are set in the xml document.

looking at it, thank you very much,
federico

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