Re: Re: pdo design

George Schlossnagle wrote:

I don't get this question, can someone reiterate the full context of it for me?

For instance, if you prepare the statement "SELECT * FROM <table> WHERE id=?" Firebird can figure out the type of the 'id' param, meaning you don't have to bind it to a certain type, whereas the emulated param binding routines cannot. Additionally, MySQL is a lot more forgiving than Firebird if you put quotes around non-string arguments inside an SQL statement. So we might decide to make the type specification optional, and let it default to 'string'. -- Ard