[development] Extend database abstraction layer, to includetablecreation.

[Chris Johnson]

moshe weitzman wrote:
>>> Of course. That's why Ber gave function name called fetch_all(). You use it
>>> when you need it. I can't understand why someone would start making noise on
>>> the list about this. You use it if you need it. That's all.
>> Well, except that people who aren't quite familiar with what's going on
>> will 
>> think that it's easier and use it in the wrong place.
> 
> Pople might misuse it is not a justification for omitting code from
> core. Building a collection from a db recordset an extremely common
> pattern and including this convenience function reduces code and makes
> it more readable. Do you think that improper instances of this will get
> into core? No chance. It won't get into any of the well reviewed contrib
> modules either. So what if people misuse a function in rarely used
> contrib module? Thats likely the least of its worries.

Larry's and Moshe's arguments have convinced me.  I retract my -1 and make it 
a +1.

..chrisxj