Re: RE: [PEAR] Placeholder queries
| From: | Martin Jansen | Date: | Fri, 11 Apr 2003 16:34:16 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: RE: [PEAR] Placeholder queries | ||
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On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 16:49, Lukas Smith wrote:
> > From: Jeroen Houben [mailto:jeroen@terena.nl]
> > Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 3:55 PM
> > It's ok to have placeholders just for a selection of types isn't it?
> Or
> > is that bad practice? I could see that for MDB a placeholder for LOBs
> > would be very useful, because the LOB will then be created behind the
> > scenes and the user does not need to worry about it.
>
> Well I would not feel good doing it partially. However LOBs are special
> and therefore I am willing to consider them.
>
> So I could see & being used for LOB's and ? for everything else.
May be I've missed something, but why not keep it the current way: & for
LOBs, ? for scalars and ! for parameter that must be left as is?
- Martin