RE: [PHP] Re: Is select_db necessary?

2009-08-13 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] So perhaps it depends on your view point and preconceptions and we're both coming at the flexible and offloading arguments with different starting views. Anyway, I only asked out of curiosity which I think has been satisfied (i.e. ultimately I don't fully agree with you! :p). [/snip]

Re: [PHP] Re: Is select_db necessary?

2009-08-12 Thread Martin Scotta
Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Ralph Deffke ralph_def...@yahoo.de wrote: I agree totally, are we not dicussing speed issues all the time? and then we recommend a code doing an unessesary job on every call? an ANSI selct db in the sql forces any database to run the internal select db

Re: [PHP] Re: Is select_db necessary?

2009-08-12 Thread Ralph Deffke
as i said earlier: on db level there is always al select db done, doing this on higer level layers (the database extension) consumes time. or why do extension have the two ways of functions? to make our live more difficult? on a ANSI sql the sql interpreter time is increased! unnessarylie

Re: [PHP] Re: Is select_db necessary?

2009-08-12 Thread Martin Scotta
-- *Von:* Martin Scotta martinsco...@gmail.com *An:* Ralph Deffke ralph_def...@yahoo.de *CC:* php-general@lists.php.net *Gesendet:* Mittwoch, den 12. August 2009, 16:18:01 Uhr *Betreff:* Re: [PHP] Re: Is select_db necessary? Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Ralph Deffke ralph_def...@yahoo.de wrote

RE: [PHP] Re: Is select_db necessary?

2009-08-12 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] I'm interested to know why you consider this to be very flexible and how this leaves the selection in the database's hands? [/snip] Flexible because I can connect to more than one database on a server using one connection without having to re-issue a select_db command, especially in a