List of PHP native_type's for PDO getColumnMeta()

Question

I am using the PDO Database Abstraction library to make sure my code is portable. However, I now find that I need column information so I turned to the PDOStatement->getColu

Answer 1

PDO is not a database abstraction. It is "only" an unified access layer. If you switch to another database system you most likely have to change the code. Each (specific) database driver returns its own set of values and there's no "translation layer" for the driver:decl_type info in pdo beyond the native_type/pdo_type fields in the result of getColumnMeta()