{SPAM 01.8} Re: [development] Data-driven database tables and updates

[Karoly Negyesi]

On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 19:33:59 +0200, Adrian Rossouw <adrian at bryght.com>  
wrote:

>
> On 10 Jun 2006, at 7:19 PM, Khalid B wrote:
>
>>
>> My objection was what this *may* lead to in the mind of some "let's
>> abstract everything", then we are in trouble.
> Oh . i believe there is a definite line there.
>
> It's perfectly possible to write select , update and insert statements  
> that work
> in both postgres and mysql. It is perfectly impossible to do the same  
> with DDL.

Well, markus has a nice library for phpBB that uses something very close  
to mysql DDL AND is cross DB.