+=item h_search ACTION
+
+Given an ACTION, either "insert", or "delete", returns the appropriate history
+record corresponding to this record, if any.
+
+=cut
+
+sub h_search {
+ my( $self, $action ) = @_;
+
+ my $table = $self->table;
+ $table =~ s/^h_//;
+
+ my $primary_key = dbdef->table($table)->primary_key;
+
+ qsearchs({
+ 'table' => "h_$table",
+ 'hashref' => { $primary_key => $self->$primary_key(),
+ 'history_action' => $action,
+ },
+ });
+
+}
+
+=item h_date ACTION
+
+Given an ACTION, either "insert", or "delete", returns the timestamp of the
+appropriate history record corresponding to this record, if any.
+
+=cut
+
+sub h_date {
+ my($self, $action) = @_;
+ my $h = $self->h_search($action);
+ $h ? $h->history_date : '';
+}
+
+=back
+
+=head1 SUBROUTINES
+
+=over 4
+
+=item real_fields [ TABLE ]
+
+Returns a list of the real columns in the specified table. Called only by
+fields() and other subroutines elsewhere in FS::Record.
+
+=cut
+
+sub real_fields {
+ my $table = shift;
+
+ my($table_obj) = dbdef->table($table);
+ confess "Unknown table $table" unless $table_obj;
+ $table_obj->columns;
+}
+
+=item _quote VALUE, TABLE, COLUMN
+
+This is an internal function used to construct SQL statements. It returns
+VALUE DBI-quoted (see L<DBI/"quote">) unless VALUE is a number and the column
+type (see L<DBIx::DBSchema::Column>) does not end in `char' or `binary'.
+
+=cut
+
+sub _quote {
+ my($value, $table, $column) = @_;
+ my $column_obj = dbdef->table($table)->column($column);
+ my $column_type = $column_obj->type;
+ my $nullable = $column_obj->null;
+
+ warn " $table.$column: $value ($column_type".
+ ( $nullable ? ' NULL' : ' NOT NULL' ).
+ ")\n" if $DEBUG > 2;
+
+ if ( $value eq '' && $nullable ) {
+ 'NULL'
+ } elsif ( $value eq '' && $column_type =~ /^(int|numeric)/ ) {
+ cluck "WARNING: Attempting to set non-null integer $table.$column null; ".
+ "using 0 instead";
+ 0;
+ } elsif ( $value =~ /^\d+(\.\d+)?$/ &&
+ ! $column_type =~ /(char|binary|text)$/i ) {
+ $value;
+ } else {
+ dbh->quote($value);
+ }
+}
+
+=item hfields TABLE
+
+This is deprecated. Don't use it.
+
+It returns a hash-type list with the fields of this record's table set true.
+
+=cut
+
+sub hfields {
+ carp "warning: hfields is deprecated";
+ my($table)=@_;
+ my(%hash);
+ foreach (fields($table)) {
+ $hash{$_}=1;
+ }
+ \%hash;
+}
+
+sub _dump {
+ my($self)=@_;
+ join("\n", map {
+ "$_: ". $self->getfield($_). "|"
+ } (fields($self->table)) );
+}
+