[DB-SIG] API suggestion: expose 'quote' method

[David Warnock]

Magnus,

> I don't see a need for this quote function for building SQL
> statements, and I don't see how it could work cross platform
> as presented, but I think it could be a good way to see what
> is happening under the hood. I would like to have that for
> pure debugging and logging purposes.

In java there is a JDBC Driver called p6spy which installs as a standard 
jdbc driver in your application between it and the real jdbc driver. It 
then logs every call to the jdbc driver. For example it shows prepared 
statements before and after binding.

This is very useful for debugging sql (eg to make sure that proxies are 
working).

However, my limited understanding of the dbi-api is that it is not yet 
complete enough as a layer for this to be possible. So far as I can see 
it is not yet so easy to write cross dbms code in python as it is in 
java. I would like to be proved wrong.

Dave
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