[Ruby-DBI-devel] Connecting w/o specifying database name

[Paul D. <pa...@sn...>]

The MySQL driver for Ruby DBI appears to *require* that you specify
a database name when connecting.  Is this part of the DBI spec itself
(if so, I don't see it), or some quirk of the MySQL driver?

I ask because there are perfectly good reasons to connect with no
database name, e.g., if you just want to query the server for general
status information.  Perl DBI allows the database name to be unspecified.