The document I read said that the second parameter is "the column to use as key, indicated by position".

What document was that? Look at the docs for fetchall_hashref, it works the same way (except you have to call prepare and execute), and has an example:

  $dbh->{FetchHashKeyName} = 'NAME_lc';
  $sth = $dbh->prepare("SELECT FOO, BAR, ID, NAME, BAZ FROM TABLE");
  $sth->execute;
  $hash_ref = $sth->fetchall_hashref('id');
  print "Name for id 42 is $hash_ref->{42}->{name}\n";

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Update: I do also see this for fetchall_hashref, so you may be right (in some other version of documentation from mine), but try it both ways:
The $key_field parameter can also be specified as an integer column nu
+mber (counting from 1).

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 Update: nevermind...see correct answer below.

In reply to Re: selectall_hashref by runrig
in thread selectall_hashref by mnlight

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