Re: Feedback about Drupal SQL debugging

Jean-Michel Pour� wrote:
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> Dear friends,
> 
> I have been using PostgreSQL since 6.3 releases and I am a real fan. 
> Of course, I never use nor trust MySQL to deliver data.
> 
> Now I use Drupal 6.3 with PostgreSQL 8.4. 
> 
> I loose a lot of time correcting Drupal SQL.
> You may be interested in my developer feedback.
> 
> I gathered some real examples here: Guidelines for writing MySQL and
> PostgreSQL compliant SQL => http://drupal.org/node/555514
> 
> This page gathers most frequent problems that Drupal users and
> developers encounter when using PostgreSQL.
> 
> I would be delighted to have your feedback.
> Could some issues reasonably be fixed for a better Drupal support?

I doubt we are going to change Postgres to improve Drupal support --- it
would be better to fix Drupal.

However, I have a few suggestions:

For this item, http://drupal.org/node/555580, use || for concatentation.

I can't believe MySQL doesn't support multi-column indexes,
http://drupal.org/node/555558.

For this item, I think you want DELETE FROM history USING ..., 
http://drupal.org/node/555562.

The SQL standard doesn't support multiple deletes, so odds are we will
not either, http://drupal.org/node/555648.

I show multi-value INSERT was added in PG 8.2, not 8.4,      * Add
support for multiple-row VALUES clauses, per SQL standard (Joe, Tom),
http://drupal.org/node/555568.

I am confused because I thought Drupal worked with Postgres, but looking
at your list, it seems it doesn't.

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