Received: from bush.rutgersinsurance.com (rutgersinsurance.com [38.138.71.194]) by mail.postgresql.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eBRLT0L45332; Wed, 27 Dec 2000 16:29:00 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from aalang@rutgersinsurance.com) Received: from 6014cwpza006 ([10.10.10.51]) by bush.rutgersinsurance.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA18920; Wed, 27 Dec 2000 16:33:29 -0500 Message-ID: <00df01c0704c$466f5260$330a0a0a@6014cwpza006> From: "Adam Lang" Cc: "PostgreSQL-development" , "PostgreSQL-interfaces" References: <200012270556.AAA19258@candle.pha.pa.us> <00b801c07021$7b33d500$330a0a0a@6014cwpza006> <3A4A20EB.18B939D4@joerdens.de> <014301c07035$5bfda120$330a0a0a@6014cwpza006> <3A4A6BA0.53728430@joerdens.de> Subject: Re: PHP and PostgreSQL Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 16:30:46 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-Archive-Number: 200012/232 X-Sequence-Number: 578 I agree, but I figured that if the 7.1 upgrade breaks some of the large object interface in the ODBC code, it may possibly break some of the interface in the php-psql code. That's why I said it should probably be checked. ;) Adam Lang Systems Engineer Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company http://www.rutgersinsurance.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frank Joerdens" To: "Adam Lang" Cc: "PostgreSQL-development" ; "PostgreSQL-interfaces" Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2000 5:22 PM Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] PHP and PostgreSQL > Adam Lang wrote: > > > > I thought I saw mention on the interfaces list that the ODBC driver needed > > to be modified to properly use the large objects. > > You normally wouldn't use ODBC to access Postgres from PHP but rather > the Postgres-specific interface. You _can_ use ODBC as well but normally > that doesn't provide any advantage. If your concern is database > abstraction, there are several libraries for PHP that provide it in > varying degrees, ODBC would be just one, possibly not optimal, solution > for the problem. Generally, from following the PHP lists and looking at > columns on, for instance, phpbuilder.com, PHP folks don't seem to > concerned with the abstraction issue, as far as I can make out anyway > (just my impression). Rasmus' question, IMHO, was about the PHP/Postgres > interface, not about ODBC. > > - Frank