This has bugged me as well in the past. Once the cvs server comes back
alive, we'll get you set up with a cvs account and you can apply these
patches. Stay tuned for a message from Sascha saying it is back.
-Rasmus
On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Georg von Zezschwitz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As I wanted to migrate a project from ODBC to Postgres, I found
> it easier to modify the postgres driver of PHP 4.0.x than to
> change my source.
>
> What I disliked (like the PEAR people) is the missing of a
> row counter when fetching rows from Postgres result tables.
>
> The mysql/ODBC/Adabas/some-other - way is:
>
> $dbr = xxx_exec ($connection, $query);
> while (list ($a, $b, $c) = xxx_fetch_row ($dbr)) {
> ... // Great, I have my results
> }
>
> The traditional and only Postgres way is:
>
> $dbr = xxx_exec ($connection, $query);
> $cnt = pg_num_rows ($dbr);
> for ($i = 0; $i < $cnt; $i++) {
> list ($a, $b, $c) = pg_fetch_row ($dbr, $i)
> }
>
> The Postgres way is ugly, but it also makes it difficult
> e.g. for the PEAR people to implement the unified interface.
>
> I found it as easy as expected to write a patch that
> makes Postgres driver behave like the other drivers, of
> cause with full backward compatibility by making the
> row number parameter optional.
>
> I also changed the pg_result and the other row-aware functions.
>
> Now, is there a chance to get this into the offical source?
>
> Whom should I contact? I'm willing to update the documentation
> in English and German if the patch should be used - but where
> to I get it? Could anybody name me a person with CVS access?
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Georg
>
>
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