Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] Re: Dbi: get number of rows in result?

[Richard J. <ri...@an...>]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 10:12:41AM -0400, Jesse Guardiani wrote:
> Well, I don't really see the point in adding it just to one driver.
> The whole idea behind Dbi is that it's an abstraction layer, so I'd
> like to keep things portable. Thanks for the response though.

It's more of an abstraction layer for the programmer than for
databases.  It'd be very hard to truly abstract away the myriad
differences between databases - eg. how would you emulate sub-selects
or Postgres's Perl stored-procedures on MySQL; or the differences in
date/timestamp representations between PostgreSQL and Informix?

Rich.

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