id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
11799	WPDB code improvements	hakre	ryan	"While taking care about various places over the past weeks I somehow returned back more and more often to WPDB starting to beautify and refactor the code in there.

I create this ticket now to collect changes on wpdb to improve the code.

Related:
 * #6836 - Prepare queries using INSERT/UPDATE should use wpdb::insert() or wpdb::update()
 * #7171 - wpdb::insert() & wpdb::update() need to allow typecasting of params.
 * #11318 - $wpdb->prepare() Chokes on single literal percentage chars?
 * #11372 - wpdb::query returns FALSE on TRUNCATE
 * #11605 - wpdb::_weak_escape() is an alias to addslashes only
 * #11608 - wpdb->prepare() is broken
 * #11649 - Upgrades Fail Because of [11883]

The two most important things while I rewrite some parts of WPDB is code duplication and massive memory leaks in that class.
"	enhancement	closed	normal		Database	3.0	normal	wontfix	has-patch