> > > My point is that you are adding 'testing tools' which are only any use > > to test themselves and not the actual interface? It's creating > > additional code that has nothing to do with testing that PDO is working > > cleanly properly across all databases, especially if it does not expect > > a working connection to carry out the testing. > > The SQL parser is shared between drivers, so in a sense it's part of > the interface. It's already possible to test the interface by > observing the effects of queries. This would allow testing of what > happens immediately prior. The parser alone is over 700 LoC. >
I incorporated some feedback from this thread and reduced the RFC to a single proposal: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/debugging_pdo_prepared_statement_emulation
