Re: [DB] Suggestion for field types

On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 12:58:43PM +0200, Peter wrote: > Hi all. Is there a mechanism in pear DB to ask about the generic field > type? I'm wondering something similar. I ran into this issue while making a new test for the tableInfo() methods. Various DBMS's spit out different types for a given field. It would be nice if at least the tests could be a little more portable so we don't get needless failures even though the thing worked. I was initially planning to add a field type translation array to the test procedure. Then I thought perahps it would be a useful thing to have in the package as a whole. But, that would lead to mission creep, since MDB already deals with this issue. What do other folks think? Thanks, --Dan -- T H E A N A L Y S I S A N D S O L U T I O N S C O M P A N Y data intensive web and database programming http://www.AnalysisAndSolutions.com/ 4015 7th Ave #4, Brooklyn NY 11232 v: 718-854-0335 f: 718-854-0409