[development] Extend database abstraction layer, to include table creation.

[Pat Collins]

On Sat, 13 May 2006 16:21:04 -0500, "James Gilliland" <neclimdul at gmail.com>
wrote :

> 
> That's the problem, standards aren't kept by all databases and features are
> added.  this leaves us implementing a subset of features or using the
> abstration layer to implement differing features on different databases.  I
> quick example is auto increment in mysql and sequence in pgsql.
> 


I didn't say it was perfect, but only it is a good base to start learning
on.  Most of the extensions are trivial (and some are actually useful) and
most software vendors (including the large ones) know that things like
built-in sequence number generators are best not used.  Drupal is just
repeating a lesson already learned by many others.  (Don't get me started on
foreign keys, constraints and cascading deletes either...)

Pat