+ // This is basically a bug fix for queries that use MAX, MIN, etc.
+ // If a parenthesis is found we know that we do not need to
+ // escape the data or add a prefix. There's probably a more graceful
+ // way to deal with this, but I'm not thinking of it -- Rick
+ if (strpos($item, '(') !== FALSE)
+ {
+ return $item.$alias;
+ }
+