And that is, all DBI needs to know is the first two fields of the DSN. The first must match 'dbi' (+-case); the second must match a module "DBD::<2ndfield>" that is installed locally. What comes after that is none of its concern. It just gets passed through to the loaded DBD driver.
A half-way alternative would be to specify the driver separated from the DBD-specific stuff. Then this:
$dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:Informix:$database", $user, $pass, %attr);
$dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:Unify:dbname[;options]" [, user [, auth [, at
+tr]]]);
$dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:Oracle:host=$host;sid=$sid", $user, $passwd);
would become this:
$dbh = DBI->connect(Informix => $database, $user, $pass, %
+attr);
$dbh = DBI->connect(Unify => "dbname[;options]", $user, $pass, %
+attr);
$dbh = DBI->connect(Oracle => "host=$host;sid=$sid", $user, $pass, %
+attr);
...
Please note that this is not an API change request/suggestion ;).
--
David Serrano
(Please treat my english text just like Perl code, i.e. feel free to notify me of any syntax, grammar, style and/or spelling errors. Thank you!).
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