Re: numRows() for oci8
| From: | Alex Black | Date: | Wed, 24 Jan 2001 19:09:56 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: numRows() for oci8 | ||
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> The necessity to hack this together - for oracle, odbc, and other databases -
> is why there's a discussion in the pear list archives concluding that the core
> db layer won't emulate non-portable features like numrows.
>
was the decision "lowest common denominator" or just "we're going to support
whatever the current db supports, the rest is your problem :)"
I like the latter, the only thing that's a _little_ annoying about metabase
is it will try and emulate features for you, which I'm not convinced is the
best way to go.
_alex