[Phpmyadmin-devel] PMA_DBI_get_columns/fields - which is deprecated?

[Dieter Adriaenssens]

2011/5/19 Marc Delisle <marc at infomarc.info>:
> Piotr Przybylski a écrit :
>> 2011/5/19 Dieter Adriaenssens <dieter.adriaenssens at gmail.com>:
>>> 2011/5/19 Crack <piotrprz at gmail.com>:
>>>> 2011/5/19 Dieter Adriaenssens <dieter.adriaenssens at gmail.com>:
>>>>
>>>>> commit 9c170511179
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm not sure about replacing the obsolete function. I remember Marc
>>>>> telling something about not using 'columns' but 'fields', last summer,
>>>>> so I guess removing the function is a move in the opposite direction.
>>>>> Can you check on the developers mailing list what should be done with
>>>>> this function?
>>>> In code comments I saw 'fields' marked as deprecated [1], with
>>>> function's comment telling me to use one of 'columns' variants...
>>> Yes, I noticed the 'deprecated' status too, but seeing it I remembered
>>> Marc's comment, so I started wondering if this deprecation, or at
>>> least the function name, is still correct.
>>>
>>>> [1] http://repo.or.cz/w/phpmyadmin/crack.git/blobdiff/7d3cd879a496adc27e5e827ef3e35f7633a827de..9c170511179a721198527f063a58ab1b031b1b93:/libraries/database_interface.lib.php
>>>>
>>
>> Going public with this, maybe someone will remember :)
>>
>
> The move we made was to replace the non-standard term "field" with the
> standard SQL term "column" on the interface.

I found the mail I remembered [0] and apparently misinterpreted it :
rows and columns it is then. ;)

[0] http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=25405157

Kind regards,

Dieter