Re: postgresql database access failure

Florin Jurcovici wrote: > My personal recommendation, however, is to drop old-style procedural > drivers and switch to PDO - it's much more convenient to use, IMO. Just be careful. PDO's implementation of MySQL doesn't implement the mysql_set_charset() function, or at least it didn't a while back according to my reading the PDO source. Setting a charset in the DSN was possible, but PDO didn't *do* anything with that setting. There are probably other minor holes out there. ("Everything in these tables is UTF-8!" "Are you *sure* about that? It looks a lot like CP-1252 here, and here, and here....") > you use PDO, you don't need to study the API of various different DB > drivers, and your code can easily switch from one database to another. This is true to some extent. There are probably a few odd cases where the native functions do more, or do it better than whatever the latest and greatest layer of abstraction does. -- Matt G / Dances With Crows The Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress/ There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see