[dev] [cvs] commit: turba/lib Driver.php api.php turba/lib/Driver sql.php

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:

>> I was under the impression that not all RDBMS actually implemented the
>> ANSI version of the substring() command.  In particular (at least some
>> versions of) MS SQL implement it in the (string, from, to) kind of way.
>
> That sucks. Does that mean that not all RDMBS implement the ANSI
> version, but all implement a non-standard version that works
> everywhere the same? I wonder what standards are for.

Can we leave it as standard and put in a switch on dbsyntax for ones  
that don't implement it? If the non-standard standard works with  
DATETIME fields, though, that's fine too.

> You can always add more function arguments when necessary. There is no
> advantage in passing a hash, it's a private function anyway.

To a point... it is an internal function though so changing how args  
are passed is always possible if we end up with too many.

-chuck