6 Sep 2001 pjones   » (Journeyer)

Perl's DBI API sucks
Python's DBI API sucks

Oracle has the right idea for transactions; a transaction is a child of a connection, and a statement is a child of that. Perl and Python both assume that a connection is a transaction, and that really sucks.

Oracle sucks

OCIServerAttach() allocates some memory; its reciprocal function, OCIServerDetach(), frees 344 bytes less. That's right -- if you make a connection to Oracle, you're excersizing a memory leak.

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