Re: [RFC] Unbundle ext/interbase

On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 3:10 PM Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk> wrote: > On 22/03/2019 13:26, Kalle Sommer Nielsen wrote: > > G'day internals > > > > I'd like to start the discussion for the future of the ext/interbase > extension: > > > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecate-and-remove-ext-interbase > > > > The rationale for pushing this extension out of the core is mentioned > > in the RFC. > > > > Unless there is any serious issues raised here, then I will put this > > into voting on Monday 8th of April, noon EET (which is a good two and > > a half weeks away). The intended voting period is set for 2 weeks, > > meaning if voting proceeds, the pools will be closed around Monday > > 22th of April, noon EET. > > It is not that we don't want to stand up and maintain it, it has been > impossible in recent years to get a handle on just what needs to be done > TO maintain it. The PDO extension is in a much worse state than the main > interbase one but both of them do their jobs as well as they can given > that in the case of PDO it can't handle the cross database transactions, > something that the main extension does quite happily. > > Personally I've been wasting time recently trying to keep alive sites > that are using MySQL and the main problem with MySQL is the one thing > that Firebird does nicely. Backup just runs as a secondary cron job > independent of PHP while MySQL is reliant on PHP and current backups on > some wordpress powered sites are failing because they run out of time or > memory. I've never had a problem with loosing data with Firebird while > I've had recover MySQL situations a few times in the last year! > > So all we are asking for is HELP with the code changes that result from > changes to the PHP API to keep this available. > Hi Lester, I've created a patch for https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=72175 (last comment), which seems to be the biggest open problem in the interbase extension. I'd appreciate it if you or someone else who uses firebird could test this. Nikita