Re: Re: Common DB Abstraction Layer: Re: [PEAR-DEV] Adoption of Metabase

> I think, the problem is here, and what can do pear-developers with difference > in SQL for DBMS? IMO, nothing, exept only ask DBMS-developers to follow the > sQL92 standatd..:) 100% Agree We have to differ between two types of abstraction layers: - an unified database layer - an unified SQL layer PEAR::DB is the first kind of layer. It's not your beer, when a programmer use DB specific statments. It unifieds the API and provides independence from the specific db API. The second kind of layer has to provide function like select(), update() ... they can base on the db layer and provides independence from SQL.