[Chicago-talk] core dump using DBI

[Jonathan Rockway]

* On Mon, Jul 14 2008, Michael Potter wrote:
> I am on AIX/DB2/Perl 5.8.5.

FWIW, I've had massive problems with IBM's DB2 DBD.  It is some of the
worst C code I've ever seen.  It rarely allocates memory before using
it, so I'm really surprised that it ever works at all.

Here is my patch from a year ago, still unapplied:

  http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=28655

This is just one of many buffer overflow problems, though.  Applying the
patch will only fix one problem, not the whole module.  

Basically, if you want correct results and stability, I would recommend
against using DBD::DB2.  It's a shame that IBM doesn't care about Perl
libraries, but they don't, so it's best to "take your business
elsewhere"... or write a real driver yourself :)

Regards,
Jonathan Rockway


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