Re: [PDO] Re: [PHP-DEV] [PATCH] New PDO methods for PostgreSQL driver

Wez Furlong wrote:
>> I also did not say that we should not have driver specific additions
>> >  to PDO but if we do it, we actually need to discuss how we want to do
>> >  it. And this discussion has began (w/o much activities) on the PDO
>> >  lists.
> I confess to being busy, but I don't recall any conversation where
> this capability was revoked or otherwise called out as wrong.

I think part of the point here IS the question of handling the use of features 
that AREN'T available to a driver. Currently people are quite happily writing 
PDO based code that can't be ported to any other databases simply in the way 
they use just the basic data abstraction. Adding another layer of functionality 
that can't be accessed generically is muddying the waters even further. If one 
is trying to port code to an alternate database, is it going to be necessary to 
build large switch arrays to select different functions from each driver? In 
which case ADOdb is a much more tidy way of handling things like this.

+100 for adding DATA handling features in a way that it is at least POSSIBLE to 
implement them in other drivers if required?

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