"SQL" REPLACE SYNTAX

From: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: "Francisco Reyes" <lists(at)natserv(dot)com>
Cc: "Manuel Lemos" <mlemos(at)acm(dot)org>, "PostgresSQL PHP list" <pgsql-php(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: "SQL" REPLACE SYNTAX
Date: 2002-01-23 01:44:12
Message-ID: GNELIHDDFBOCMGBFGEFOKECFCBAA.chriskl@familyhealth.com.au
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> 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?

Chris

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