Re: [PATCH] New PDO methods for PostgreSQL driver
| From: | Lukas Kahwe Smith | Date: | Wed, 26 May 2010 15:15:33 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [PATCH] New PDO methods for PostgreSQL driver | ||
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On 26.05.2010, at 11:35, Pierre Joye wrote:
> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 3:37 AM, Wez Furlong <kingwez@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I confess to being busy, but I don't recall any conversation where
>> this capability was revoked or otherwise called out as wrong.
>
> Now you have examples of such discussions :)
>
> More seriously, the current situation has to be discussed. For one I
> don't think your solution is clean or is safe enough. I remember
> having discussed that with other vendors and as far as I can remember,
> they have the same feeling.
>
> But again, it is not about preventing such things to happen. It is
> about thinking a little bit before adding more and more
> inconsistencies to PDO, with all respects to the original authors.
Right, I think we all can agree on that we will not prevent anyone from adding the functionality if
it makes the least bit of sense to have it. The question is just of there is the possibility of an
API that will work for all/most drivers.
regards,
Lukas Kahwe Smith
mls@pooteeweet.org