X-Original-To: pgsql-advocacy-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [64.117.224.193]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AB4A30F649; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 20:29:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([64.117.224.193]) by localhost (svr1.postgresql.org [64.117.224.193]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 38236-10; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 17:29:02 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mxrelay.ptc.com (poster.ptc.com [12.11.148.30]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6392730F55C; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 17:29:02 -0300 (ADT) Received: from HQ-EXFE4.ptcnet.ptc.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mxrelay.ptc.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id QAA14086; Mon, 23 Jun 2003 16:27:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from hq-mail1.ptcnet.ptc.com ([132.253.201.71]) by HQ-EXFE4.ptcnet.ptc.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5329); Mon, 23 Jun 2003 16:27:32 -0400 Received: from ptc.com ([132.253.96.61]) by hq-mail1.ptcnet.ptc.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5329); Mon, 23 Jun 2003 16:27:01 -0400 Message-ID: <3EF76295.3030104@ptc.com> Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 16:27:01 -0400 From: Erik Price User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Lane Cc: Alvaro Herrera , Bruce Momjian , Josh Berkus , Joe Conway , "Advocacy (PostgreSQL)" , PostgreSQL-general Subject: Re: [GENERAL] interesting PHP/MySQL thread References: <200306222159.h5MLxT720807@candle.pha.pa.us> <15339.1056334760@sss.pgh.pa.us> <20030623032251.GA27826@dcc.uchile.cl> <16073.1056340630@sss.pgh.pa.us> In-Reply-To: <16073.1056340630@sss.pgh.pa.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 23 Jun 2003 20:27:01.0437 (UTC) FILETIME=[CD6DC6D0:01C339C5] X-Archive-Number: 200306/206 X-Sequence-Number: 1418 Tom Lane wrote: > I'd be happy if PHP would adopt a database-neutral stance, ie, nothing > in particular bundled into their core distribution. That might not be > compatible with their project goals though. Anyone have a feeling about > how important it is to them to have bundled DB support? Maybe we could > talk them into bundling more than one DB interface --- if they put both > PG and SQlite support into their distro, that'd be fine with me too. On that note, last I read, MySQL is planning to offer PHP as a language for writing stored procedures when the features is made available in the 5.0 release. Erik