Re: Re[2]: [PHP-PEAR] PHPLib and Pear merge

[Maxim Derkachev <kot@books.ru>] > > PEAR::DB, instead do have some crucial limitations in its current > state. E.g. why don't bother to include support for accessing number > of rows affected by the insert/update/delete query? It is supported > by almost any mainstream database available. Why don't bother to > count number of rows returned by select? It is one of most needed > things in web development. It is natively supported by many > databases (e.g. Mysql, Postgres), and can be easily emulated (or, in > any case, the method could return 'not supported' for performance > reasons) for those that don't support this. Well, DB has affectedRows(), it is currently supported in mysql, oci8 and pgsql. The others return a "not capable" error. > PEAR::DB eats much more resources then DB_Sql and can't afford those > simple things which could be done in half an hour or less? Please, if you want to complain, at least make sure you complain about the latest version. - Stig -- Stig Sæther Bakken <ssb@fast.no> Fast Search & Transfer ASA, Trondheim, Norway