Re: Re: Re: Topics in Perl Programming: Table-Mutation Tolerant Database Fetches with DBI

[repson]

You could use idea 1 and use the sql statement 'describe table' then you could checksum that output and if the checksum changes, die and don't run until the program is updated. This could apply if other people are likely to change column names and you don't want your program to try to run in an unknown situation.

[Dominus]

I think that my example shows that that won't always help.