Change Request: Make PDO default to not emulate prepared statements for MySQL

I have already reported this issue on the bug tracker: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54638 But I figured it would be good to start a discussion on it here. To me, I consider this a pretty significant issue since it's not possible to do true prepared statements while using PDO. All the code to do so is there (and it does work). But it's just the single flag that defaults emulation to be on that's holding things up. Since it will fallback to using emulation mode if the library or server can't support prepared statements, I don't personally see any issue with changing the default in a point release. Thanks Anthony