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
