An informative-sounding blog post from 2006 states these facts about using native prepared statements in PDO:
- Native prepared statements cannot take advantage of the query cache, resulting in lower performance.
- Native prepared statements cannot execute certains types of queries, such as "SHOW TABLES".
- Native prepared statements don't correctly communicate column lengths for certain other "SHOW" queries, resulting in garbled results.
How much of this is still true today?