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

Hi Paul! On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Paul Meagher wrote: > Manual Lemos Wrote: > > If you want to resort to non-portable database programming, just stick > > with the native database API that PHP offers and you will get all the > > speed that is possible. Using a database abstraction that does not offer > > portability and still adds execution overhead does not make much sense. > > Your programs still need to be adapted to run with different databases > > and they will still be slower than using the native PHP database APIs. > [snip] > It may be true that PHP only has one true DB Abstraction layer and that is > Metabase. If that is the case, then I think we should not call PEAR DB a > database abstraction layer if it confuses this important distinction. A > Unified API is probably a more accurate term as was suggested before. > you mean something like Unified ODBC which uses native calls for a series of databases? my $euro = .2; :) -- teodor