[development] Do not let postgresql hold back great patches

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting Ivan Sergio Borgonovo <mail at webthatworks.it>:

>
> The path should be to make the DB abstraction layer more DB agnostic
> and make developer more aware there is not just mysql.
> Everything will look terrible if you design for mysql and then try to
> port it to any other DB. This increase the inertia of moving to a
> more agnostic DB layer and supporting anything else than mysql.
>

Which is what I suggested about 4 days ago and created 
http://drupal.org/node/191486 to take this on.  Writing to Drupal SQL 
within the code base and letting the further abstraction handle the 
differences.  Drupal SQL would have a format similar to MySql so that 
the commands should be able to be passed directly to the MySql layer 
when the db_type is mysql but other db_type would parse the string 
further to make changes as needed.  This can also fix quoting 
differences so I can quote the columns in MySql style with the back 
quote character "`" in my Drupal SQL code and when the db_type is pgsql 
I change it to the single quote "'" character (assuming that is what 
pgsql uses to quote columns).

Earnie -- http://for-my-kids.com/
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