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

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> > I don't know sqlite or IBM, but the MySQL SELECT INTO OUTFILE is a plain
> SQL
> > statement, you don't need any special pdo function to use it, on the
> other
> > hand, you can't use the postgresql's COPY TO/FROM with PDO without the
> patch
> > above.
> > Did I misunderstood something?
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> well, even if it's possible to do as "sql" in mysql, it is still possible
> to implement as the method.
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> p.s. actually, as we're talking about "trunk" it is still possible to
> implement these methods in generic fashion.
> I can provide implementation for pdo_mysql (unless anyone else will be
> faster).
> does anyone know enough about ibm's api to provide implementation for it?
>
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I don't think that is a good idea.
For example in mysql, you can SELECT INTO OUTFILE any sql result, for
postgresql, you can only import/export a table:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/sql-copy.html

So the two feature is different, and I can't see a point, that why should we
force different features into a common functionality.

For postgres I think we had to provide this functionality somehow, because
it was impossible to do this with through PDO.

But we think it over, before we over-generalize the function.

Tyrael

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