I'm trying to use the DBI::column_info method to get details about the columns in a mySQL table -- which mostly works but I confused by ORDINAL_POSITION: which the docs define as "The column sequence number (starting with 1)." I was expecting (1,2,3) from my 3 column test table but I get (1,1,1). Am I missing something? 
 
    my $sth1 = $dbh->prepare("SELECT * FROM $table");
        $sth1->execute() or die $DBI::errstr;
        my $col_names = $sth1->{NAME};
    
    foreach my $column ( @{$col_names}) {
        my $sth = $dbh->column_info(undef, undef, $table, $column);
    
        foreach my $col_info ($sth->fetchrow_hashref) {
            print " $col_info->{'ORDINAL_POSITION'}  $col_info->{'COLU
+MN_NAME'} \n";
                }
      }

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In reply to DBI column_info question by FryingFinn

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