Exactly. Using wgDbType outside of the database should never be necessary.

-Chad

On May 16, 2009 12:59 PM, "Roan Kattouw" roan.kattouw@gmail.com wrote:

2009/5/16 Freako F. Freakolowsky freak@drajv.si:

Why was this approach opposed? > I am working on Oracle abstraction at the

moment and i was planni... What I think DJ Bauch meant was that conditional code in special pages deciding which SQL to use based on $wgDBtype is a bad idea and has been opposed. Adding a function to the Database class to form compound queries has, to my knowledge, not been opposed.

Roan Kattouw (Catrope)

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