[development] Flex API, XML API modules are they needed?

[andrew morton]

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Larry Garfield <larry at garfieldtech.com> wrote:
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> That's a different question, I think.  DBTNG uses arrays and named placeholders.  It sounds like David is talking about XPath based queries, which are another animal entirely and not DB portable.  David, can you elaborate here?
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> DBTNG does not allow the reuse of placeholders within the same query, because PDO doesn't either.
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> --Larry Garfield

Well technically only certain versions of the PDO don't allow it:
http://paul-m-jones.com/?p=243

I can't find the php.net issue for this but I seem to remember that
the change was eventually reverted leaving a band of versions that
don't allow it.

andrew