On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 11:34:57AM -0600, Gabe Rudy wrote:
> from sqlobject.sqlbuilder import *
> Contact._connection.sqlrepr(
> Select( StrCat(Contact.q.lastName, ",", Contact.q.firstName) ) )
>
> Does this sound like a reasonable feature request?
It does. The name could be CONCAT() or CONCATENATION(). Please don't
forget about tests and documentation.
> A reasonable concern would be if the majority of suppored
> databases have some syntax to deal with this
Postgres and SQLite have || operator, MySQL has CONCAT() function (||
operator in MySQL means boolean OR).
> what would happen if they
> didn't (exception raised? do it in python?).
A backend reports an error, DB PAI driver rasies an exception, and you
can ignore this for now.
Oleg.
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