[DB-SIG] paramstyles (mysql string length?)

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Carsten Haese wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 10:20, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>> Carsten Haese wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 08:24, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>>>> I've found the qmark style to be sufficient for everything
>>> I agree. Considering that many modules already support qmark, and those
>>> that currently use 'format'/'pyformat' would have to move to something
>>> else if these are dropped, I'd like to suggest that supporting 'qmark'
>>> style should become a required feature. Modules would be free to also
>>> implement 'named' and/or 'numeric', but supporting 'qmark' should be
>>> mandatory.
>> I'm not sure whether that's easily possible for database modules
>> which rely on different marker mechanisms, e.g. some modules
>> probably use the implicit type information in the pyformat style
>> to find out which method to use for binding variables.
> 
> I don't follow. I thought we're voting on dropping 'pyformat' as a
> parameter style. Also, how does pyformat contain implicit type
> information?

Markers such as %i and %s could be treated as meaning: bind
these variables as integer and string. This implicit type
information might be vital to some modules.

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