"show databases" via DBD::mysql

[Michael Stillwell]

On 13 Jan 2006, at 03:03, Paul Makepeace wrote:

> I've tried a bunch of things with $dbh->table_info and none seem to be
> returning anything about the catalogs/schema, just tables of the
> selecting dbname. Anyone?

Have never used table_info(), but if it helps any, here's some code  
that uses DESCRIBE to determine column names and types:

my $dbi = DBI->connect(...);

my $schema =  do {
     my $sth = $dbi->prepare(qq{DESCRIBE $table});
     $sth->execute;
     my %h = map { $_->{Field} => $_->{Type} }
                 @{$sth->fetchall_arrayref({})};
     \%h;
};

# $schema->{COLUMN_NAME} = "TYPE";





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