> Will you post to the dev list, or should I send a note?

I will send it directly to Dmitry or Vlad, also cc-ed to devel.

> As I mentioned before, we are really under the gun timewise on this, so
> your help is greatly appreciated.

But as I understand, you have found a workaround for the issue - you have to
ensure that first SQL is an update, right?

Roman