Re: MDB Questions - switching to MDB, failover and so on...

Thanks Alan, Are you implying that we should wait for PDO support and go directly from DB -> PDO? Will it be simply another ini option? What are the advantages of PDO over MDB? Also, any thoughts on failover? Thanks, Matt. On 7/16/06, Alan Knowles <alan@akbkhome.com> wrote:

Matt Friedman wrote: Hi, We've relied on PEAR::DB and DB_DataObject for quite some time now. But the more I read about MDB the more attractive it looks, but I have a couple questions. How hard is it to move from DB to MDB, especially in the context that we need to continue to use DB_DataObject? Are the APIs compatible? What steps might need to be taken? MDB should be an ini option setting to use with DB_DataObject - from what I know, DataObject2 will use PDO - I've heard rumors that it is almost working ... ;) Regards Alan Do any of the db layers support automated failover? We were trying to do this because we are going to be implementing replication but we found things a bit inflexible using just DB so we're probably going to rely on hardware failover instead. Has anyone considered this as a feature to add on the/a software layer? Many thanks,

-- -- Matt Friedman