DB_Light

OK, so I've been thinking, through all of this conversation about a new DB abstraction layer. Now, it's really nice to have a full-featured, totally abstracted abstraction layer... however, some applications don't need all of the "extras" like the DB-specific queries to do things like get all of the tables, or to get all of the rows for a table and stick them into an array -- those types of things could be done on a case-by-case basis, and when you're working on an application that'll get tons of hits all the time (like a message board or a high-profile website) where the abstraction of the SQL can be left up to you and all that you need is a very simple API to connect and do queries, it is a speed problem when you're including ~75 kb (AKA a ***lot***) of files with every pageload... if someone chopped out a lot of the "extra" features, for a streamlined version of PEAR::DB, perhaps it could be a new package, "DB_Light" (or something), a faster PEAR::DB. These are some of the things that I think should be kept in something like that: query() fetchInto() -- no fetchRow(), because it's extra isError() quote() There's probably more... that's all that I can think of off the top of my head right now (besides that I have to go to class in a few minutes)... --Jason