[PHP-DEV] PDO questions

2005-09-22 Thread Ron Korving
After reading the php|architect article on PDO by Ilia I have a couple of questions: 1) Does unsetting $stmt trigger a closeCursor() as well? I assume so, but the article doesn't mention it. It only talks about the importance of calling that method. 2) Could it be a good idea (performance wise)

Re: [PHP-DEV] PDO questions

2005-02-25 Thread Wez Furlong
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 11:47:24 +0100, Ard Biesheuvel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some questions that came to mind while working on PDO/Firebird: - why can't stmt_get_col() return a zval directly? - why is there no PDO_PARAM_DOUBLE? Because PDO doesn't believe in doubles. The decimal data coming

[PHP-DEV] PDO questions

2005-02-24 Thread Ard Biesheuvel
Some questions that came to mind while working on PDO/Firebird: - why can't stmt_get_col() return a zval directly? - why is there no PDO_PARAM_DOUBLE? -- Ard -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] PDO questions

2005-02-24 Thread Alan Knowles
At present it is nearly possible to write extensions that bypass the PDO php api, and talk directly to the drivers via the PDO Api - it helps alot that the backends where designed not to return zval's much (meta is a rather messy exception, that hopefully may get looked at after 5.1 I guess). I