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

[Carsten Haese]

On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 23:34 +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> 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 ?!

Sounds good to me.

-- 
Carsten Haese
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