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

----- Original Message ----- From: "Teodor Cimpoesu" <teo@gecadsoftware.com> > [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? > I think Unified ODBC could also be characterized as providing "a common interface to connect to a db, execute queries, fetch the result and report errors" - so yes. Regards, Paul Meagher > my $euro = .2; :) > > -- teodor > > -- > PEAR Development Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: pear-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: pear-dev-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >