Re: Silencing NOTICEs in Perl Pg

On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 12:11:09 -0700,
  David Wheeler <david@wheeler.net> wrote:
>
> Hrm, I've never head DBI called "lame" before. But its advantages lie
> in its standardization of database access. But yes, some might consider
> that a limitation.

That was in reference to that specific detail (doing begin immediately
rather than when needed), not the library as a whole.

I actually use DBI and in some things I am doing for work I use both
DBI and Pg in the same perl script (that talks to both oracle and postgres).

> BTW, the relatively new DBI begin_work() method may have overcome the
> issue you raise.

Thanks for this information.