[turba] upgrade problems

Chuck Hagenbuch chuck at horde.org
Tue Jul 4 16:17:09 PDT 2006


Quoting Howard Moscovitz <h at mosc.com>:

> There is one small issue. Now my database has the same fields as the
> current version, but they are in different order. Does anyone know if
> this matters? It is possible to write SQL that assumes the fields are
> in a specific order, but that is not good programming practice. Still,
> I wouldn't want to get burned.

Turba (and every single Horde app) lists out columns explicitly in SQL  
statements and never relies on the order of columns in a table in  
reads or writes of any kind.

> I could reorder the fields with some more awk programming, if I had to.
> It is work I'd rather avoid it possible. Does the turba development
> team review these kinds of coding issues?

What coding issue is there to review?

-chuck

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