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

On 13.06.2010, at 21:09, Stanley Sufficool wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 4:54 AM, Ilia Alshanetsky <[email protected]> =
wrote:
>> The concerns you raised about custom methods specific to database =
drivers
>> were not reflective of the PDO's intent as was clarified by Wez and =
myself.

yeah .. Wez became the ruler of PDO by ignoring others .. one of the =
reasons why development died when he left .. so in that way its =
"consistent" to continue the development in a lone wolf manner.

>> The code that was introduced was specific to PostgreSQL, the common
>> functionality was introduced in a way that allows each driver to =
implement.
>=20
> Yet the rest of the copyFrom, copyTo, etc.. could have ben generic as
> well. I specifically stated that this could be done at the driver
> level for FreeTDS using the BCP extensions and/or using "BULK INSERT
> ". Yet now this is a specific pgsql*** interface that cannot be
> abstracted for other drivers OR implemented at the driver level. Now
> if I want a MSSQL / Sybase dump/load method, I need to preface it with
> dblibCopyFrom, dblibCopyTo.


right .. Ilia just chose to ignore the rest of the developers.

regards,
Lukas Kahwe Smith
[email protected]