Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:15111 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 55442 invoked by uid 1010); 20 Feb 2005 03:29:07 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 62948 invoked from network); 20 Feb 2005 02:44:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 20 Feb 2005 02:44:11 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 212.227.126.189 moutng.kundenserver.de Received: from ([212.227.126.189:62147] helo=moutng.kundenserver.de) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity HEAD (r4059)) with SMTP id 42/DD-19278-53287124 for ; Sat, 19 Feb 2005 13:15:17 -0500 Received: from [212.227.126.209] (helo=mrelayng.kundenserver.de) by moutng.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1D2Z8M-0001K3-00 for internals@lists.php.net; Sat, 19 Feb 2005 19:15:14 +0100 Received: from [62.224.10.50] (helo=p3EE00A32.dip0.t-ipconnect.de) by mrelayng.kundenserver.de with asmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1D2Z8M-0002CQ-00 for internals@lists.php.net; Sat, 19 Feb 2005 19:15:14 +0100 To: internals@lists.php.net Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 19:15:03 +0100 Message-ID: <1108836903.316.40.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de auth:bf648c7cefcb4f7c0e2e63c674feb220 Subject: PDO types From: thekid@thekid.de (Timm Friebe) Hi, while testing PDO I was astonished to see that all values (regardless of their types in the database) are returned as strings (in all extensions except for PgSQL). Why is that so? It _is_ quite inconsistent, isn't it? Wasn't PDO supposed to _unify_ the RDBMS access apis? -- Timm If it ain't broken, it doesn't have enough features yet