> > Who is the architector/staff board of PDO?
PDO is maintained with the rest of PHP core, so it follows the same process outlined in CONTRIBUTING.md. That is to say, there's no central governance. Some people, as listed in EXTENSIONS, have appropriate karma and handle maintenance that falls outside of the contribution guide. That's why I think, it will be great to have a special type like > PDO::PARAM_AUTO and a config flag to set it as default instead of > PARAM_STR. The risk with this is queries could lose portability between drivers. There are differences in the level of information each one can get from the DB server, and different costs associated with asking. I think the right model is to have PDO types map directly to SQL types. That said, the code and documentation don't take a strong stance on how types should work. And there's not a lot of agreement in the community, at least as indicated by discussions on this list. I agree with Matteo that param hooks might provide a better solution to the specific problem you're describing. Thanks, Adam
