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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     Oleg Broytmann            http://phd.pp.ru/            [EMAIL PROTECTED]
           Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.


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