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

[Michael N. <uu...@rz...>]

Paul DuBois wrote:
> 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?

Not part of DBI spec. 

> 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.

This could also be achived by calling (and of course implementing) a driver 
specific function (of the Mysql DriverHandle class). 

But Perl's solution seems to be more natural.


Regards,

  Michael