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in thread Distiguishing arguments: number-strings vs real integer

> Isn't irrelevant what Perl thinks of a variable's type when DB already knows/was told what the type of that column should be at create time? some testing on MariaDB
CREATE TABLE `t_test_type` ( `f_num` INT(11) NULL DEFAULT NULL, `f_str` CHAR(50) NULL DEFAULT NULL ) ENGINE=MyISAM ;
Ron

It looks like you could get what you want from the ansi information_schema and a query like the one below that worked for me under MySQL. I have read that not all DBMS support information_schema.

> SELECT column_name, data_type FROM information_schema.columns WHERE table_name = 't_test_type' AND column_name IN ('f_num', 'f_str') +; +-------------+-----------+ | column_name | data_type | +-------------+-----------+ | f_num | int | | f_str | char | +-------------+-----------+ 2 rows in set (0.00 sec)

DBI has a column_info method that seems to guarantee DATA_TYPE code and TYPE_NAME fields, if implemented by the driver which should be true for MariaDB based (only) on looking at the source.

#!/usr/bin/env perl use warnings; use strict; use DBI; my $dsn = "DBI:mysql:database=mysql"; my $dbh = DBI->connect($dsn, ... , #user name and password { RaiseError => 1 } ) or die $DBI::errstr; my $info = $dbh->column_info( undef, 'mysql', 't_test_type', '%' )->fetchall_hashref('COLUMN_NAME'); while (my ($col, $col_info) = each %$info) { print "$col $col_info->{ DATA_TYPE } $col_info->{ TYPE_NAME }\n"; }
Output:
f_str 1 CHAR f_num 4 INT
Ron

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Re^6: Distiguishing arguments: number-strings vs real integer
by LanX (Saint) on Aug 12, 2018 at 00:41 UTC
    Yeah sure.

    I already thought about warning the user if he is comparing strings with integers or vice versa.

    But as I said I want to play safe not to loose any information in the process.

    SQL is far too diverse to rely on assumptions, from what I know is DBI highly depended on the quality of the underlying DBDs, like emulating placeholders where not available.

    Cheers Rolf
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