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

[Piotr Przybylski]

2011/5/19 Dieter Adriaenssens <dieter.adriaenssens at gmail.com>:
> 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
>

Good, so I removed the right function :)

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Piotr Przybylski