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NAME

Lingua::EN::GivenNames::Database::Create - An SQLite database of derivations of English given names

Synopsis

See "Synopsis" in Lingua::EN::GivenNames for a long synopsis.

See also "How do the scripts and modules interact to produce the data?" in Lingua::EN::GivenNames.

Description

Documents the methods end-users need to create/drop tables in the SQLite database, lingua.en.givennames.sqlite, which ships with this distro.

See scripts/create.tables.pl and scripts/drop.tables.pl.

Distributions

This module is available as a Unix-style distro (*.tgz).

See http://savage.net.au/Perl-modules.html for details.

See http://savage.net.au/Perl-modules/html/installing-a-module.html for help on unpacking and installing.

Constructor and initialization

new(...) returns an object of type Lingua::EN::GivenNames::Database::Create.

This is the class's contructor.

Usage: Lingua::EN::GivenNames::Database::Create -> new().

Methods

This module is a sub-class of Lingua::EN::GivenNames::Database and consequently inherits its methods.

create_all_tables()

Create these tables: forms, kinds, meanings, names, originals, ratings, sexes, sources.

Returns 0 to indicate success.

create_${name}_table()

Create the $name table.

drop_all_tables()

Drop all the tables.

Returns 0 to indicate success.

drop_table($table_name)

Drop the table called $table_name,

new()

See "Constructor and initialization".

report($table_name, $message, $result)

For $table_name, if the result of the create or drop is an error, die with $message.

If there was no error, log a create/drop message at level debug.

FAQ

For the database schema, etc, see "FAQ" in Lingua::EN::GivenNames.

References

See "References" in Lingua::EN::GivenNames.

Support

Email the author, or log a bug on RT:

https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Lingua::EN::GivenNames.

Author

Lingua::EN::GivenNames was written by Ron Savage <ron@savage.net.au> in 2012.

Home page: http://savage.net.au/index.html.

Copyright

Australian copyright (c) 2012 Ron Savage.

        All Programs of mine are 'OSI Certified Open Source Software';
        you can redistribute them and/or modify them under the terms of
        The Artistic License, a copy of which is available at:
        http://www.opensource.org/licenses/index.html