On 02/10/17 01:48, BohwaZ/PHP wrote: > So for me the use case is quite different here, and openBlob allows > stuff that PDO::PARAM_LOB with bindColumn and bindParam cannot allow > currently. In conclusion openBlob is still useful as it allows accessing > a BLOB outside of a statement and allows to read and write at the same > time without having to load the blob in memory.
This is where the limitations of some of the other database engines come into play. In many cases in shared hosting, the database is provided on another machine, so one has to transfer the data results between machines and do not have direct access to the data. PDO can't emulate this function so the question is still SHOULD something that can't be made generically functional be allowed in PDO. Personally I would prefer that for this sort of action the generic driver was used used rather than PDO and I have to do that for other functions in other databases currently anyway. So one does not have to overload PDO with more checks as to if your code will work on the different drivers. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
