Hello,
Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
>
> > We can discuss names, till the cows come home, but basically Manuel
> > described what he meant. The "replace" functionality is one of the few
> > things I liked of MySQL when I researched which dB to go with. The fact
> > that this layer can abstract the functionality is a great point in my
> > opinion.
>
> Here's an idea: look at their code to see what kind of SQL jiggery pokery
> they needed to implement it and then implement it ourselves...
>
> BTW, from my estimates you'd need at least 4 - 6 sql queries to simulate the
> REPLACE syntax for Postgres, so why on earth would you use it?
Actually only two: a SELECT and a depending on that, a INSERT or an
UPDATE. You may want to try to look at Metabase implementation to see
how it works.
Regards,
Manuel Lemos
