Re: PHP Abstraction layers - Mailing list pgsql-php

From Christopher Kings-Lynne
Subject Re: PHP Abstraction layers
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Msg-id GNELIHDDFBOCMGBFGEFOGECDCBAA.chriskl@familyhealth.com.au
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In response to Re: PHP Abstraction layers  (Manuel Lemos <mlemos@acm.org>)
Responses Re: PHP Abstraction layers  (Francisco Reyes <lists@natserv.com>)
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> A new release of Metabase was made just yesterday. It provides some
> features that users were requesting like the ability to customize error
> handling. It also provides yet another innovating features, which is the
> SQL REPLACE implementation. This is a statement like SQL INSERT except
> that if the values of the primary keys match the ones of an existing
> row, it will update that row instead of inserting a new one. AFAIK, only
> MySQL provides SQL REPLACE command, but Metabase provides a suitable
> emulation that works the same way using transactions so it works also
> with PostgreSQL, Oracle, MS-SQL server, Informix, Interbase, etc..

*cough* Callling it 'SQL REPLACE' is a bit of a misnomer.  It is not
specified anywhere in the SQL standard. (Like lots of MySQL stuff)

Chris


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