Re: [Dbi-interbase-devel] 0.21 alpha released

[Edwin P. <ed....@co...>]

Michael Samanov wrote:
> MDA> AutoCommit off still has a clunky/limited interface, but that isn't edwin's fault, that is the
> MDA> immature DBI interface that has a "commit" and "rollback" but no "begin".
> 
> The  dark  issue  to  me.  Why  the damn the DBI ideologists did cover
> transactions  in  so  lamentable  volume? There's one so-called "RDMS"
> only  in  the  world  that  happily doesn't know transactions at all -
> MySQL,  and,  at  the  same  time  we have no standard $dbh->begin, or
> $dbh->StartTrans or smth :-(

Not only DBI in Perl world, see also the database API in Python world:
http://www.python.org/topics/database/DatabaseAPI-2.0.html

Same thing: no transaction object!

Rgds,
Edwin.