DBI improvement

[Ferenc Engard]

Hello,

I think all the DBI type classes (DBI::Timestamp etc.) should support
the <=> operator. Lacking this makes life heavy; implementing them would
be easy.

Bye,
Ferenc

 

[Ara.T.Howard]

Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 04:43:33 +0900
From: Ferenc Engard <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
Subject: DBI improvement

Hello,

I think all the DBI type classes (DBI::Timestamp etc.) should support
the <=> operator. Lacking this makes life heavy; implementing them would
be easy.

how about special timestamps? for example, postgresql supports

'-infinity' < all_other_times < 'infinity'

and

'epoch' == '1970-01-01 00:00:00'

things like this get tricky.

Bye,
Ferenc

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