Addslashes still recommended for DB input

The current php.ini-recommended in CVS for 5.2 has this at line 95...

; - magic_quotes_gpc = Off         [Performance]
;     Input data is no longer escaped with slashes so that it can be sent into
;     SQL databases without further manipulation.  Instead, you should use the
;     function addslashes() on each input element you wish to send to a database.

As far as I was aware addslashes is inadequate for this purpose. Should this not point people to use database-specific escaping functions rather than addslashes? -Stut -- http://stut.net/