[Dbix-class] help: some more suggestion really appreciated to "downgrade" DBIx::Class::Storage ANSI JOINs to Oracle 8i

[Jess Robinson]

On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Igor Longagnani wrote:

> Hi folks, thanks for your precious time,
>
> I am citing this old message by Matt,, thanks again for DBIx:Class(
> http://www.mail-archive.com/dbix-class@lists.rawmode.org/msg00081.html
> ), and i am wondering if someone has good news or knows something that
> could help me to "downgrade" DBIx::Class::Storage ANSI JOINs to Oracle
> 8i old join syntax, that is, joins in the WHERE CLAUSE.
>
> I really would love to avoid some programming hell as Matt suggested and
> i am not a Perl guru myself for sure, but i CAN'Tchange my Oracle 8
> RDBMS. In the end i'll follow Matt's ideas if no other stuff has come
> out since last February (message timestamp).
>
> I am using last version of  Catalyst environment + CGI::FormBuilder and
> now approaching to DBIx::Class and 'til now was quite happy but i made a
> "little" error in checking my DB, i was sure 9i would have been used but
> i found out 8i will be.OMG. Help needed :)
>
> Any suggestion?

You mean the =* syntax? Some crazy person just wrote a module to deal with 
that.. not sure if he's going to release it into the wild though.. I think 
it was dnm, or dwc.. on the IRC channel..

Jess