PDO_DBLIB Native PHP Type binding

[email protected] (Stanley Sufficool) Wed, 3 Nov 2010 18:52:24 -0700

Newsgroups	php.internals,php.pdo
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Before I gut PDO_DBLIB one more time to implement native parameter
binding for stored procedures, what are the thoughts on returning the
column values from the database as the native PHP type when possible?
Currently everything is returned as a string, incurring overhead for
conversion and creating problems hinting at the desired binding type
for BLOBS and numeric data types.