Alias column names should be surrounded by backticks otherwise it causes...

[kabudu]

Alias column names should be surrounded by backticks otherwise it causes SQL syntax errors.
See this thread: http://forum.kohanaframework.org/discussion/comment/63963

[zombor]

ORM is a database agnostic class, so this can't go here.

Also, please read the contributing guidelines in the main repo, this needs a redmine issue and shouldn't point to master.

[kabudu]

So right, I'll have to re-think a possible solution then.
I'll have a look at the contributing guidelines.