Cross DB support. Ever need to join two tables aross do different databases? It's the pits.
Could you describe what do you mean? My modules does support work with several databases (different dbh's) at the same time - and should support multiple DB types (MySql, SQLite, Postgree ...). But I have no idea how to possibly join two tables in different DB's (with JOIN or say sub query).

Simple things should be made simple. In DBI, to get a row of data using a primary key for the bind variable, I need to create a statement handler, bind a parameter, execute, and return some structure. 4 lines of code I use everywhere, but I wind up keeping DBI libs so that I don't have to do that all the time. Pains me to see people write those 4 lines everywhere.
I actualy never used bind variables. I don't like them for some reason - and find it more convenient to place everything inside hashes. Guess it's because most modules accept/give hashes in one way or another.

But you could do something like: 
my ($var1, $var2, $var3) = $DB->execute('SELECT field1, field2, field3
+ FROM whatever')->fetchrow_array();

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Or maybe even something like following. 
my ($var1, $var2, $var3) = $DB->do('SELECT field1, field2, field3 FROM
+ whatever WHERE id = 1');

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Requesting data also always requires SQL. Wouldn't it be nice if I can use a set of the ANSI SQL language and have it translated to my DB's version of SQL. I'm tired of converting sql statements from one db's SQL into another. Don't even start me on openning a connection for rollback-able transactions.
Oh well this isn't perfect world. IMHO that's the job of RDBMS in the first place - they should stick to standards. Only thing I can do is support functions that will be there for as many DB types.

Consistency in the low-level operations. I don't trust people's driver level libraries to be remotely consistent. I want to setup, breakdown and have queries adhere to timeouts in a consistent fashion. Setting up evals with alarms is something people should not have to think about.
I'm not sure I follow you on this?

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In reply to Re^2: What do people want from DB abstraction modules? by techcode
in thread What do people want from DB abstraction modules? by techcode

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