RE: [PEAR-DEV] Re: [binarycloud-dev] FW: lets talk "metapear"-politics aside:-)

It has to be provided by the user. Lukas Smith smith@dybnet.de _______________________________ DybNet Internet Solutions GbR Alt Moabit 89 10559 Berlin Germany Tel. : +49 30 83 22 50 00 Fax : +49 30 83 22 50 07 www.dybnet.de info@dybnet.de _______________________________ > -----Original Message----- > From: Stig S. Bakken [mailto:ssb@fast.no] > Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 7:22 PM > To: Lukas Smith > Cc: 'Stig S. Bakken'; 'John Lim'; pear-dev@lists.php.net; metabase- > dev@yahoogroups.com; 'binarycloud-dev' > Subject: RE: [PEAR-DEV] Re: [binarycloud-dev] FW: lets talk "metapear"- > politics aside:-) > > On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 18:00, Lukas Smith wrote: > > > Aha! We're misunderstanding eachother, I'm talking about escaping > > > special characters in data before embedding it in the query. As for > > > types, yes you're right. Today PEAR's prepare emulation puts > > ampersands > > > and escapes only string data, so you have control over that by passing > > > data with the right PHP types. Ideally we should have some knowledge > > of > > > the types in the database, but I'm not sure if that is realistic. > > > > Well metabase can do both. > > Metabase has internal datatypes that it maps to RDBMS specific > > datatypes. > > These datatypes are used for prepared queries and can also be used for > > normal queries. Metabase is also aware of the escape characters for each > > RDBMS. > > Does Metabase have this information because of the XML table definition > files, or does it retrieve it from the database? > > - Stig