SQL translate issues

[mdsumner]

Laundry list

paste() not available for GDB

What's the OGRSQL concat?

 transmute(adddress = paste(ST_NO_FROM, STREET))
Error in CPL_read_ogr(dsn, layer, query, as.character(options), quiet,  : 
  Query execution failed, cannot open layer.
In addition: Warning message:
In CPL_read_ogr(dsn, layer, query, as.character(options), quiet,  :
  GDAL Error 1: Undefined function 'CONCAT_WS' used.

It's CONCAT
works with transmute(), and mutate() but not with select()

 transmute(address = CONCAT(LOCALITY, STREET))

so this works

 sf::read_sf(files$fullname[1], query = "SELECT CAST(ST_NO_FROM AS character(255)) FROM list_address_points_statewide WHERE LOCALITY = 'Glenora'")

but this does not, I think because it requires a subquery and we can't

lazysf(files$fullname[1], sql("SELECT CAST(ST_NO_FROM AS character(255)) FROM list_address_points_statewide WHERE LOCALITY = 'Glenora'")) 
Error in CPL_read_ogr(dsn, layer, query, as.character(options), quiet,  : 
  Query execution failed, cannot open layer.
In addition: Warning message:
In CPL_read_ogr(dsn, layer, query, as.character(options), quiet,  :
  GDAL Error 1: SQL Expression Parsing Error: syntax error, unexpected '(', expecting string or identifier. Occurred around :
SELECT *