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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] annotations again
From: christopher.jones@oracle.com (Christopher Jones)


guilhermeblanco@gmail.com wrote:

> > PDO is another case in point - that is still not accepted and fully
> > functional as a replacement for the genric drivers ... ADOdb still provides
> > a valid abstraction layer, and if you must use PDO then it just loads that
> > instead of the generic one ... and it runs just as fast on either. PDO is
> > functional, but needs more work, however there are few people that find the
> > need for improving it?
> >
>
> PDO is horrible. You have to implement workarounds for almost every driver
> For example Oracle driver... I already reported to Chris tons of
> issues (bug ids) that even include patches for each situation and I
> saw a *VERY* few bugs fixed.
> I know he has priorities and etc, but it seems that you flood your
> mouth to talk about PDO, but actually, writing abstraction drivers
> around it is very painful.

For the Oracle Database, Oracle contributes to and recommends the OCI8
extension.  We don't contribute to PDO_OCI.

Chris