r9734: Document idiosyncrasies of the individual backends and differences from CommonSQL.

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 1. Variances from CommonSQL (Ideally, this will be extremely minimal) 
 
  - The SQL syntax state functions are macros in CLSQL. 
+ - CLSQL starts with in transaction AUTOCOMMIT mode. 
+
 
 2. Underdocumented CommonSQL features:
 
  - Retrieval immediate
  - SQL operators: ||, SUBSTR, MINUS, INTERSECT, UNION, NVL 
 
-2. CLSQL extensions to CommonSQL
 
- - RESULT-TYPES, FIELD-NAMES keywords for SELECT, QUERY, DO-QUERY and 
-   MAP-QUERY. 
+3. CLSQL extensions to CommonSQL
 
  - New types such as wall-time, boolean, and bigint
 
  - SQL operators: group-by, limit, not-null, ==, is, having, the, uplike,
-   sql-view-class, coalesce, except (just from a quick scan of 
-   operations.lisp)
-
- - FDDL: list-views, view-exists-p, list-indexes, list-table-indexes,
-   index-exists-p, create-sequence, drop-sequence, list-sequences,
-   sequence-exists-p, sequence-next, sequence-last, set-sequence-position
-
- - FDML: TRUNCATE-DATABASE, DESCRIBE-TABLE, FOR-EACH-ROW and large object 
-   support. 
+   view-class, coalesce, except, exists, substring, concat 
 
  - OODML: *db-auto-sync*
 
  - SELECT: additional keyword arguments accepted include :LIMIT, :OFFSET, 
    :INNER-JOIN and :ON. 
 
- - SQL-RECORDING-P: also accepts :both and :either values for the TYPE 
-   parameter. 
-
- - DROP-TABLE/DROP-VIEW/DROP-INDEX: keyword arg :if-does-not-exist. 
-
- - DROP-INDEX: keyword arg :on (for MySQL). 
-
  - DEF-VIEW-CLASS: DB-CONSTRAINTS, DB-TYPE and VOID-VALUE slot options. 
 
- - CREATE-TABLE: keyword args :TRANSACTIONS (for MySQL) and :CONSTRAINTS;  
-                 description arg accepts optional DB-TYPE string. 
-
- - transactions: START-TRANSACTION and IN-TRANSACTION-P. 
-
- - Tranactions: AUTOCOMMIT
 
 4. Documenting lower level, non-CommonSQL functions (some of this is already 
    done). 
@@ -59,18 +38,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION TO DO LIST
    features, notable extensions etc.). 
 
  - MYSQL 
-
-   drop-index:   requires a table to be specified with the :from parameter
-   views:        mysql does not support views  
-   queries:      nested subqueries are not supported
-   syntax:       doesn't support the sql concatenation operator (||). 
-                 doesn't support INTERSECT/EXCEPT set operations. 
-   create-table: the transactions keyword arg controls whether the created 
-                 table is an InnoDB table (supporting transactions) or not. 
-
  - SQLITE 
-
-   connection:   specifying ":memory:" gives you an SQLite database in RAM.
-   create-view:  column-list parameter not supported 
-   syntax:       doesn't support the sql SUBSTRING operator. 
+ - ODBC 
+-  ORACLE