Tom,
> > diff -ru DBD-Pg-1.41/types.c DBD-Pg-1.41-patched/types.c
> > --- DBD-Pg-1.41/types.c Fri Apr 8 16:06:23 2005
> > +++ DBD-Pg-1.41-patched/types.c Fri Apr 8 15:46:37 2005
> > @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
> > {ABSTIMEOID, "abstime", DBDPG_TRUE, null_quote, null_dequote, {0}},
> > {RELTIMEOID, "reltime", DBDPG_TRUE, null_quote, null_dequote, {0}},
> > {TINTERVALOID, "tinterval", DBDPG_TRUE, null_quote, null_dequote, {0}},
> > - {UNKNOWNOID, "unknown", DBDPG_FALSE, null_quote, null_dequote, {0}},
> > + {UNKNOWNOID, "unknown", DBDPG_FALSE, quote_varchar, null_dequote, {0}},
> > {CIRCLEOID, "circle", DBDPG_FALSE, null_quote, null_dequote, {0}},
> > {CASHOID, "money", DBDPG_TRUE, null_quote, null_dequote, {0}},
> > {MACADDROID, "MAC address", DBDPG_TRUE,
> > quote_varchar,dequote_varchar, {0}},
>
> Hmm ... if those columns mean what it looks like they mean, quite a few
> of the other entries seem wrong too. All of the types visible in that
> fragment ought to be quoted when used as SQL literals.
>
> Also, if the MACADDROID entry is any precedent, shouldn't you be
> changing the dequote field too?
I'm not with the development team of DBD::Pg to make those changes,
but I'm confident that it will be much appreciated by them (and myself
and other users of DBD::Pg for sure) if you could review its code in
regards to the type conversion issue and give your suggestions.
http://search.cpan.org/~dbdpg/DBD-Pg-1.41/
--
Vlad
