[support] using two different database type

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting Pierre Rineau <pierre.rineau at makina-corpus.com>:

> On mer, 2008-07-30 at 09:47 -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote:

>> 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.
>

Such a patch should wait on http://drupal.org/node/225450 to be 
committed which means that it this easy implementation might need to 
wait on D8.  If someone wants to beat me to a patch go ahead; this is 
open source country.

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