[TYPO3-dev] Should t3lib_db support MySQL's REPLACE INTO statement?

[Xavier Perseguers]

Hi Ingo,

> would you be interested to see a 
> $GLOBALS['TYPO3_DB']->exec_REPLACEquery() method?
> 
> please refer to the MySQL docs [1] for details on replace...
> 
> As REPLACE is a MySQL addition to standard SQL DBAL would need to take 
> care of that by splitting the call up into separate INSERT and DELETE + 
> INSERT queries. But that's doable.

It could be very useful but support for other DBMS should be updated in 
parallel of course.


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