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My inserts didn't work until tracked this down:

I have a field in my database. This field's Type looks like "enum('student','professional','retired','other (see description)')".
Kohana_Database::_parse_type, when parsing this thing, returns "enum')" as its type, and "'student','professional','retired','other (see description" as its length.

I am sure, including parentheses while defining a field type is not the best practice, but when dealing with legacy code and especially database structures, it's good to know that everything else is working as it's supposed to.

To work this around I came with

else if (strpos($type, 'enum') === 0 || strpos($type, 'set') === 0) {
list($type, $len) = explode('(', $type, 2);
$len = '('.$len;
return( array($type, $len) );
}

just underneath the first if in that method.