Merge 'trunk' into 'storage-interbase'

[dbsrgits/DBIx-Class.git] / lib / DBIx / Class / Storage / DBI / ODBC / Firebird.pm

package DBIx::Class::Storage::DBI::ODBC::Firebird;

use strict;
use warnings;
use base qw/DBIx::Class::Storage::DBI::InterBase/;
use mro 'c3';

=head1 NAME

DBIx::Class::Storage::DBI::ODBC::Firebird - Driver for using the Firebird RDBMS
through ODBC

=head1 SYNOPSIS

Most functionality is provided by L<DBIx::Class::Storage::DBI::Interbase>, see
that module for details.

To build the ODBC driver for Firebird on Linux for unixODBC, see:

L<http://www.firebirdnews.org/?p=1324>

=cut

# XXX seemingly no equivalent to ib_time_all in DBD::InterBase via ODBC
sub connect_call_datetime_setup { 1 }

# from MSSQL

sub build_datetime_parser {
  my $self = shift;
  my $type = "DateTime::Format::Strptime";
  eval "use ${type}";
  $self->throw_exception("Couldn't load ${type}: $@") if $@;
  return $type->new(
    pattern => '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', # %F %T
    on_error => 'croak',
  );
}

# we don't need DBD::InterBase-specific initialization
sub _init { 1 }

# ODBC uses dialect 3 by default, good
sub _set_sql_dialect { 1 }

1;

=head1 CAVEATS

=over 4

=item *

This driver (unlike L<DBD::InterBase>) does not currently support reading or
writing C<TIMESTAMP> values with sub-second precision.

=back

=head1 AUTHOR

See L<DBIx::Class/AUTHOR> and L<DBIx::Class/CONTRIBUTORS>.

=head1 LICENSE

You may distribute this code under the same terms as Perl itself.

=cut