ora_check_sql in DBD::oracle

  • From: Mladen Gogala <mladen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 13:51:12 -0500

In private communication with Cary Millsap, I was warned about the  
undocumented DBI handle attribute called "ora_check_sql" which was
defaults to "1" and, oracle versions 8 and above, causes oracle to
parse each statement twice ($sth=$dbh->prepare() is the first parse
and  4sth->execute() was the second). On 1/27/2004. Tim Bunce delivered
the new DBD::Oracle v1.15 and in the documentation one can find the  
following text:
***************************************************************************
ora_check_sql

    If 1 (default), force SELECT statements to be described in prepare 
(). If 0, allow SELECT statements to defer describe until execute().  
(OCI8 and later only.)

    See "Prepare postponed till execute" for more information.
**************************************************************************

When I did the unthinkable and read the documentation (I know, real DBA  
is not supposed to read the documentation, but learn by osmosis) I  
remembered the correspondence with Cary and decided to publish it for  
the rest of the good, hard hacking, perl folks.



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