[support] Drupal 5 db_query

[Fred Jones]

Here is some trivial code:

$n= db_query($countsql) ;
echo "<!-- ";print_r(db_fetch_array($n)); echo " -->";
$countsql = str_replace('{','',$countsql);
$countsql = str_replace('}','',$countsql);
$resultXXX = mysql_query($countsql);
echo "<!-- ";print_r(mysql_fetch_array($resultXXX)); echo " -->";

which runs my $countsql through db_query, shows the result and then
through mysql_query and shows the results. The two other lines just
remove the { and } characters. I would have expected to see the same
results both times, but what I see is:

<!-- Array
(
    [COUNT(*)] => 0
)
 --><!-- Array
(
    [0] => 4
    [COUNT(*)] => 4
)
 -->

The mysql_query version returns the correct result--that is what I see
if I run the query via phpMyAdmin as well. Seems that Drupal's
db_query is doing something to it. The operative issue is the use of
UCASE I am quite certain. I wanted to make my LIKE phrase case
insensitive, so I added UCASE to both sides of it, but now db_query
fails.

Anyone have any feedback on this? I would not be opposed to just using
mysql_query but the query in question I actually want to pass to
pager_query, which in turn of course passes it to db_query.

Thanks.