Re: Drivers giving different results

[Jochen Wiedmann]

Vivek Khera wrote:

> This would be ok, but the DBI interface should expose this function,
> not change the meaning of affected rows.

I think this is what we already have now by looking at mysql_info().
In that case no new functionality would be required.


> JW>   - change mysql_affected_rows to return the number of matched rows
> 
> No.  This would be bad.  I think that the "affected" rows has a valid
> meaning in this case, and should not be changed.  An SQL server is
> well within its rights to rewrite such a query by not affecting rows
> that are already set to the "new" value.

I leave this discussion to others. :-)


Bye,

Jochen


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