php and me don't get alone... help?

[Madison Kelly]

Zbigniew Koziol wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 November 2006 22:30, Madison Kelly wrote:
> 
>>    Is this why PHP/MySQL are so popular together?
> 
> I gave up looong time ago and when I install apache (and php, mysql, postgres, 
> etc) I do that by compiling from sources. It is really simple to do and you 
> are free. I would never trust installing these things from rpm or another 
> apt-get.
> 
> zb.

That's an unfortunate statement, but understandable. You'd think 
something as popular as PHP would have support for a DB server like 
PostgreSQL. Is there any public rationale for such poor support? I've 
never had trouble with Perl + PostgreSQL/MySQL and can't fathom why PHP 
would. Oh well...

Madi
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