--- PApp-SQL/SQL.pm	2001/04/22 14:38:27	1.15
+++ PApp-SQL/SQL.pm	2002/02/27 04:32:39	1.21
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 =head1 NAME
 
-PApp::SQL - absolutely easy yet fast and powerful sql access
+PApp::SQL - absolutely easy yet fast and powerful sql access.
 
 =head1 SYNOPSIS
 
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
  my $a = sql_fetch "select a from ...";
  sql_fetch \my($a, $b), "select a,b ...";
 
- sql_exists "name from table where name like 'a%'"
+ sql_exists "table where name like 'a%'"
     or die "a* required but not existent";
 
  my $db = new PApp::SQL::Database "", "DBI:mysql:test", "user", "pass";
@@ -46,10 +46,10 @@
 BEGIN {
    use base qw(Exporter DynaLoader);
 
-   $VERSION = 0.123;
+   $VERSION = 0.13;
    @EXPORT = qw(
-         sql_exec sql_fetch sql_fetchall sql_exists sql_insertid $sql_exec
-         sql_ufetch sql_ufetchall sql_uexists
+         sql_exec  sql_fetch  sql_fetchall  sql_exists sql_insertid $sql_exec
+         sql_uexec sql_ufetch sql_ufetchall sql_uexists
    );
    @EXPORT_OK = qw(
          connect_cached
@@ -125,6 +125,9 @@
  # try your luck opening the papp database without access info
  $dbh = connect_cached __FILE__, "DBI:mysql:papp";
 
+Mysql-specific behaviour: The default setting of
+C<mysql_client_found_rows> is TRUE, you can overwrite this, though.
+
 =cut
 
 sub connect_cached {
@@ -132,9 +135,14 @@
    # the following line is duplicated in PApp::SQL::Database::new
    $id = "$id\0$dsn\0$user\0$pass";
    unless ($dbcache{$id} && $dbcache{$id}->ping) {
-      #warn "connecting to ($dsn|$user|$pass|$flags)\n";#d#
       # first, nuke our statement cache (sooory ;)
       cachesize cachesize 0;
+
+      # then make mysql behave more standardly by default
+      $dsn =~ /^[Dd][Bb][Ii]:mysql:/
+         and $dsn !~ /;mysql_client_found_rows/
+            and $dsn .= ";mysql_client_found_rows=1";
+
       # then connect anew
       $dbcache{$id} =
          eval { DBI->connect($dsn, $user, $pass, $flags) }
@@ -214,7 +222,9 @@
 ... and it's still quite fast unless you fetch large amounts of data.
 
 C<sql_ufetch> is similar to C<sql_fetch> but upgrades all input values to
-utf8 and forces all result values to utf8.
+utf8 and forces all result values to utf8 (this does I<not> include result
+parameters, only return values. Using bind variables in cinjunction with
+sql_u* functions results in undefined behaviour).
 
 =item sql_fetchall <see sql_exec>
 
@@ -241,9 +251,10 @@
  }
 
 C<sql_ufetchall> is similar to C<sql_fetchall> but upgrades all input
-values to utf8 and forces all result values to utf8.
+values to utf8 and forces all result values to utf8 (see the caveats in
+the description of C<sql_ufetch>, though).
 
-=item sql_exists "<table> where ...", args...
+=item sql_exists "<table_references> where <where_condition>...", args...
 
 =item sql_uexists <see sql_exists>