Docs have been here for the past 11 months: http://drupal.org/node/310069 Or track me down in Paris, as I fully expect to spend most of the code sprint(s) helping people with upgrades. Jamie Holly wrote:
Learn something new every day! I haven't started playing with D7 yet, but I can see that becoming a very handy hook.
By the way, do you have a decent reference to the new Database layer for D7? I got some stuff to start converting and I would like to start that in the near future.
Jamie Holly http://www.intoxination.net http://www.hollyit.net
larry@garfieldtech.com wrote:
Um. hook_query_alter() went into core nearly a year ago as part of DBTNG. It only applies to dynamic SELECT queries, which is a small minority of the queries Drupal runs.
Jamie Holly wrote:
Yeah I agree we really need to keep Drupal lean. I wouldn't want to see > the entire Views package integrated as-is. I wouldn't mind some of the > functionality included though that would give an easy way to alter some > core queries. One that comes to mind is the comment query. Sometimes > there are needs for extra data from the user table to be pulled in, and > currently there really isn't an easy way to alter that query in > comments.module.
I've thought in the past about a hook_query_alter, but that could really > add some overhead - especially on sites with a large number of queries. Jamie Holly http://www.intoxination.net http://www.hollyit.net
Earnie Boyd wrote: Quoting Jamie Holly <hovercrafter@earthlink.net>:
I really like that whole idea. Then we could have handy hooks to easily modify those queries if someone wishes, like maybe an easy > >> way to add index hinting.
But we can have those hooks maintained in a contrib module as well. >> We just need to have a api.contrib.drupal.org or >> drupal.org/contrib/api. I am with the crowd of keep Drupal core >> lean. The less optional modules Drupal has to consider the better it would be.
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