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

On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com> wrote: > On 04/30/2011 10:36 AM, Stas Malyshev wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> Do you realize why we did this in the first place? The common versions >>> of MySQL in use out there are not very clever when it comes to the >>> native prepared statement handling. First, there is no prepared >>> statement cache, so there is no benefit to doing them natively, but >>> >> >> Since 5.1.17 there is: >> >> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/query-cache-operation.html >> And 5.1.17 is 4 years old already. >> > > People upgrade their databases even slower than they upgrade their PHP. > > -R > > > with 5.0 EOL-ed for some time, and even the debian stable is running 5.1, I wonder how many of our user runs 5.0. Tyrael