[PHP-DB] Re: Common DB Abstraction Layer: Re: [PEAR-DEV] Adoption of Metabase

2001-11-21 Thread l0t3k
John, in addition to the list you posted, there's - inconsistent/incomplete metadata support. it would be nice, for example if the MySQL extension would be more precise about a field type than "string", etc i tried hard and failed to describe why i'd want to start a C based DB library, an

Re: [PHP-DB] Re: Common DB Abstraction Layer: Re: [PEAR-DEV] Adoption of Metabase

2001-11-21 Thread Pierre-Alain Joye
On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 16:14:04 +0100 (MET) Luc Saint-Elie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > En réponse à Pierre-Alain Joye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > This definition defines more a common interface to connect to a db, > > execute queries, fetch the result and eventually gives errors reports > > ;).

[PHP-DB] Re: Common DB Abstraction Layer: Re: [PEAR-DEV] Adoption of Metabase

2001-11-21 Thread Luc Saint-Elie
En réponse à Pierre-Alain Joye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > This definition defines more a common interface to connect to a db, > execute queries, fetch the result and eventually gives errors reports > ;). Somehow yes (do I still win the $15,000 ???) > IMO, the need of a real abstraction layer is no

[PHP-DB] Re: Common DB Abstraction Layer: Re: [PEAR-DEV] Adoption of Metabase

2001-11-21 Thread Luc Saint-Elie
En réponse à Joao Prado Maia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Now for the $15,000 question: does anyone else agree with this ? If > PEAR::DB is not abstracting the database what is the purpose of such a > library ? Well I strongly need thoses $15 000 $ so What is the purpose ? As a "average php use

[PHP-DB] Re: Common DB Abstraction Layer: Re: [PEAR-DEV] Adoption of Metabase

2001-11-20 Thread Manuel Lemos
Hello, John Lim wrote: > Each designer has a different point of view, like Tomas has > written a really excellent oci8 "select limit" emulation, but looking > at the code, it's so complicated that i decided not to incorporate it > in ADODB because I value simplicity. I know Tomas' code works > in