markjugg has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello! I'm interested to know of any of you have tried out DBI 1.15.

We have a lot of production systems that depend on it, so I'd like to hear reports of it working (or not) for other people before we take the plunge and upgrade. Thanks!

-mark

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Re: anyone tried DBI 1.15?
by merlyn (Sage) on Apr 03, 2001 at 19:29 UTC
    It passes "make test" on my machine, and it's by Tim Bunce, reputable for high quality code. What more assurance can you have, except to run it in your own enviroment on a test load. (You do have that option, right?)

    -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

Re: anyone tried DBI 1.15?
by PsychoSpunk (Hermit) on Apr 03, 2001 at 20:04 UTC
    markjugg, my best suggestion is to subscribe to dbi-users@perl.org

    Important things to look for in the archives, database system and version. merlyn's correct. Tim Bunce is a reputable source for modules, being both the author of the DBI module and co-author of Programming the Perl DBI.

    In my own experience when I made the jump from 1.13 to 1.14, my own code didn't have a problem. It's generally when you make a jump from different DBD modules that any specific errors may arise. In those cases, you can always expect to get a quick response from the author on the dbi-users mailing list.

    Update: I was looking through the list and noticed a small problem that came up. Tim was notified of it. The error involved selectrow_hashref in a mod_perl environment (read Apache::DBI). The method was not found. Also, if you run Oracle, you may experience a test script failing (t/plsql.t around test 55). Tim reports this as a flawed test (read not a real issue). Unless you're crazy and running the bleeding edge version of perl, it appears that these are the only errors reported so far on the list.

    ALL HAIL BRAK!!!