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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mysqlt	mysqlt, mysqlpo	Superseded by mysqli
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
oci805	oci805	Written specifically for now obsolete version of oracle
oci8po	oci8po	Should be able to roll the minor differences in this driver into the main one
oracle	oracle	Obsolete database version
mssql2012ODBC mssql2012	odbc_mssql2012	Make the extended feature of this driver the default in the parent
SQLite Database	sqlite3	merge current version back to sqlite
PostgreSQL	postgres64, postgres7, postgres8, postgres9	Merge all versions back to postgres
PDO mssql	mssql	Obsolete driver

Old Name	New Name	Children
access	access
db2	db2
firebird	firebird
ldap	ldap
mssqlnative	sqlserver
mysqli	mysql
oci8	oracle
odbc	odbc	db2, mssql, oracle
pdo	pdo	dblib, firebird, mysql, oci8→oracle. pgsql, sqlite, slsrv
postgres9	postgres
sqlite3	sqlite