Re: PDO subclass names

On Apr 30, 2024, at 8:07 AM, Arvids Godjuks <arvids.godjuks@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 30 Apr 2024 at 12:07, Matteo Beccati <php@beccati.com> wrote: > Hi, > > > > If MariaDB wants to maintain a specific PDO Driver they can do so > > themselves and publish it on PECL, same as how CUBRID (and others) does > > currently. > > That is true, however it's mysqlnd the part that deals with the network > protocol, which they wouldn't be able to modify from PECL. That said, > I'm not an expert on mysql/maria, but I also doubt the changes are > significant enough that they need a separate driver. > > I wasn't proposing rolling a separate driver or anything like that, just an alias that > would reserve a namespace for MariaDB and if there's ever a need to actually roll the driver, > that alias be replaced with actual driver. > The thing is at this point MySQL and MariaDB have a different set of additional capabilities > that are not compatible between the two. Doctrine, at this point, actually makes a distinction > between MariaDB and MySQL - those are considered different databases. > This would allow people to use MariaDB and MySQL-specific functionality by using the respective > driver namespace and remove any confusion about if this works with both or only one of them. > > I know it seems to be out of scope, but this deals with PDO subclass names and this seems to be > a thing to consider here. Sure, we can have a separate RFC about it, but I think this is the right > moment to handle this question. > Has the network protocol diverged much? I know storage engines, query language, etc. might change, but the underlying protocol might be similar.