[Dbix-class] InflateColumn::DateTime

[Christopher H. Laco]

Dan Horne wrote:
>> On Behalf Of Matt S Trout=
>> Subject: Re: [Dbix-class] InflateColumn::DateTime
>>
>> Christopher H. Laco wrote:
>>> Can someone give me a quick synopsis of how this works.
>>>
>>> It looks like it's always loaded, and only intervenes when it sees a
>>> column_info data_type of 'datetime'.
>> It's not always loaded, you have to ask for it. Yeah, all it does is
>> intervene in the case of a register_column call for a datetime.
>>
> Actually, this is something that I've been meaning to raise, but I've been
> beaten to it. Oracle has no concept of a datetime data type, it just has
> date.
> 
> Now, I could just declare date columns as datetime columns in the table
> class, but this seems to contravene the approach specified in the
> DBIx::Class::ResultSource doco:
> 
> "Currently there is no standard set of values for the data_type. Use
> whatever your database supports."
> 
> Now I guess that we could provide a method in
> DBIx::Class::Storage::DBI::<DB> that returns the DB-specific date data type,
> but will that start adding too much overhead?
> 
> Dan
> 
> 

On top of that, I was just looking at DBIx::Class::DateTime::Epoch which
I think is a more sane approach if you're start a schema from scratch.

-=Chris


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