[support] using two different database type

[Pierre Rineau]

On mer, 2008-07-30 at 09:47 -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> Quoting Pierre Rineau <pierre.rineau at makina-corpus.com>:
> 
> > You MUST use two same database type.
> >
> > Explaination is simple, since Drupal files with pgsql support and mysql
> > support declare the same function's names inside, it's just impossible
> > to go through this situation.
> >
> 
> Yes, this is most unfortunate.  I've an idea of how to fix it but I 
> won't even begin until after the PDO patch is in.
> 
> > Using OO it could be possible, but Drupal is not OO.
> >
> 
> What an odd sentence.  Drupal doesn't need to use classes and 
> instantiation to resolve this bit of hardship.  It just needs to use 
> the database type to resolve which function to hook from the global 
> function name.  So I call db_query() in my module but that will call 
> db_query_mysql() or db_query_pgsql() dependent on the type of the DB 
> active at the time.  Currently the design declares the same db_query() 
> function within more than one file which is really sad.

Yes, I agree with that, this was a wonderfull troll :)

But it should go with a dynamic database type resolving based on active
database type.

It really could be easy to implement.

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