Re: Migrate from MySQL to PostgreSQL

On Jan 23, 2004, at 6:20 AM, Andreas Korthaus wrote:

Hm, I don't need datatype-abstraction, because I only use "standard datatypes" as int, smallint, char, varchar and text. I know that I loose a lot of cool DB-Features, but DB Abstraction is more important for me, and to use unix-timestamp in INT-fields is really fast an nice to handle in PHP. Flags don't to be real bolean, could be smallint or char. Perhaps it is not nice, but it works everywhere.

This is why I think DB_Table is a valuable addition to PEAR, if not as its own package then as a subclass of DB. Andreas is one of the users who could benefit from it. For more information, check out the proposal and website:

    http://pear.php.net/pepr/pepr-proposal-show.php?id=14

    http://yawp.dnsalias.net/wiki/view.php?wiki=DbTable

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