As far as including the ODBCRouter in the PHP code, I wanted to know more about what it is before it goes further. The website is full of non-useful information regarding what ODBCRouter does. If it's another driver manager, I see no problem including it. If it is another case of "we want our proprietary driver included" I'm voting against it. I would much rather see the uODBC work primarily with driver managers, than becoming a driver manager of our own design. As I said, from the literature found online, I cannot tell which of these it really falls into.
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Andi Gutmans wrote:
I have no idea about ODBCRouter but for what it's worth unixODBC and iODBC aren't the best and most performant solutions (at least as far as I know). So if this is an equivalent, I see no reason not to support it.
Andi
At 11:20 AM 1/11/2005 -0800, Dan Kalowsky wrote:I'm not sure I'm sold on this whole concept yet. I don't see how this differs from the use of an ODBC Driver or an ODBC Driver Manager.
Admittedly I haven't investigated it very throughly yet, but the Macintosh already has unixODBC and iODBC working with it (your example not mine). Both allow connections to cross platform databases regardless of datasets. Both read data sets regardless of endian nature.
The very definition of ODBC is for open connectivity, regardless of client platform, as a long as the client conforms to a version of the spec. Much of what you've just quoted as being reasons to use ODBCRouter are the reason ODBC itself exists.
I haven't looked at the patches yet, so is this just another drive manager?
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