+function &getDB($bNew = false, $bPersistent = false)
+{
+ // Get the database object
+ $oDB = chksql(
+ DB::connect(CONST_Database_DSN.($bNew?'?new_link=true':''), $bPersistent),
+ 'Failed to establish database connection'
+ );
+ $oDB->setFetchMode(DB_FETCHMODE_ASSOC);
+ $oDB->query("SET DateStyle TO 'sql,european'");
+ $oDB->query("SET client_encoding TO 'utf-8'");
+ $iMaxExecution = ini_get('max_execution_time') * 1000;
+ if ($iMaxExecution > 0) $oDB->query("SET statement_timeout TO $iMaxExecution");
+ return $oDB;
+}
+
+function getDBQuoted($s)
+{
+ return "'".pg_escape_string($s)."'";
+}
+
+function getArraySQL($a)
+{
+ return 'ARRAY['.join(',', $a).']';
+}
+
+function getPostgresVersion(&$oDB)
+{
+ $sVersionString = $oDB->getOne('SHOW server_version_num');
+ preg_match('#([0-9]?[0-9])([0-9][0-9])[0-9][0-9]#', $sVersionString, $aMatches);
+ return (float) ($aMatches[1].'.'.$aMatches[2]);
+}
+
+function getPostgisVersion(&$oDB)
+{
+ $sVersionString = $oDB->getOne('select postgis_lib_version()');
+ preg_match('#^([0-9]+)[.]([0-9]+)[.]#', $sVersionString, $aMatches);
+ return (float) ($aMatches[1].'.'.$aMatches[2]);
+}