[DB-SIG] Questions about the DB API

[Tom Bryan]

On 7 Nov 1999, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:

> Greg Stein <gstein@lyra.org> writes:
> 
> > An older version of the API did exactly that -- allow execution
> > directly from the connection object. It was not broadly implemented
> > (i.e. against the spec). When 2.0 came around, we decided that
> > creating a cursor is not a hardship on the programmer and simplified
> > the API to allowing execution only thru cursors.
> 
> Hmm.  OK.  One reason why I asked this is that cursors have a defined
> semantics in database API's, and the Perl people in the company always
> look at me strangely when I create a cursor for the sole reason of
> executing a query.

You might want to write your own small module to wrap the DB API.  It
could import the appropriate DB module for you and provide a function for
transparently executing single SQL statements such as 
'DROP TABLE perl_hacks'.

You could also add your fetch_iterate to such a module.

---Tom