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List of Drivers To Be Removed / Merged

Full Removal

Driver	Driver / Children	Reason
ADO	ado, ado_access, ado_mssql, ado5	Obsolete
Frontbase	fbsql	No PHP drivers since V4
IBM Informix	informix, informix_72	Database End-Of-Life / No PHP 7 Drivers
mysqlt	mysqlt, mysqlpo	Superseded by mysqli
[v5:database:microsoft_sql_server#mssql]]	mssql, mssql_n, mssqlpo	Driver End Of Life / No PHP7 drivers
Netezza	netezza	Database End-Of-Life 2019
ODBTP	odbtp, odbtp_unicode	Obsolete
Plain Text	text	Incompatible with later versions of PHP
Proxy	proxy	Deprecated for security reasons, as of ADOdb 5.21.0
SAP ADS	ads	Database End-Of-Life / No PHP 7 Drivers
SAP ASE	sybase, sybase_ase	Database End-Of-Life / No PHP 7 Drivers
SAP MaxDB	sapdb	Database End-Of-Life / No PHP 7 Drivers
SAP SQL Anywhere	sqlanywhere	Dormant / No Active Users
Visual FoxPro	vfp	Obsolete

Occasionally renewed interest in a database may result in a driver being reactivated

Driver	Children	Reason
IBM_DB2	db2ora, db2oci	Feature handled in rewritten main driver. Use param() for parametisation
[[v5:database:oracle#oci805	oci805	Written specifically for now obsolete version of oracle
[[v5:database:oracle#oci8po	oci8po	Should be able to roll the minor differences in this driver into the main one
[[v5:database:oracle#oracle	oracle	Obsolete database version
[[v5:database:odbc#mssql2012	mssql2012	Make the extended feature of this driver the default in the parent
[[v5:database:sqlite	sqlite3	merge current version back to sqlite
[[v5:database:postgresql	postgres64, postgres7, postgres8, postgres9	Merge all versions back to psostgres