Re: PHP Abstraction layers

From: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: "Manuel Lemos" <mlemos(at)acm(dot)org>, "Francisco Reyes" <lists(at)natserv(dot)com>
Cc: "PostgresSQL PHP list" <pgsql-php(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PHP Abstraction layers
Date: 2002-01-22 04:40:18
Message-ID: GNELIHDDFBOCMGBFGEFOGECDCBAA.chriskl@familyhealth.com.au
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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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