Re: Pear DB Problem/feature and suggestion

On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 21:19, Wayne Johnson wrote: > I've always wanted a common DB interface to PHP. Being a Postgres fan > (no flames please) I found it a bit dishartening to see most of the open > source code tied to MySQL. I was just starting to write my own > generalized abstract when.... PEAR. THANK YOU! > > > I've run into, what I think might be a problem, or as least an > undocumented feature of PEAR/DB. I do a query, then a tableinfo and then > attempt to run through the results. If I do the tableinfo, there are no > results. Remove the tableinfo and it works fine. Is this a feature? > Fault? > > I also had some problems doing a connect. I accidently specified > PostgreSQL as the phptype instead of pgsql. The error given was "DB > Error: not found". Might I suggest a bit better error message. I spent > considerable time playing with the other DSN parameters thinking that it > was just unable to connect. Yep, that error message definitely has to improve. Got bitten by the same thing myself only yesterday :-) I'll take a look at adding a "driver not found" error for this. - Stig