dbGetInfo {DBI}

Get DBMS metadata

Description

Retrieves information on objects of class DBIDriver, DBIConnection or DBIResult.

Usage

dbGetInfo(dbObj, ...)

Arguments

dbObj

An object inheriting from DBIObject, i.e. DBIDriver, DBIConnection, or a DBIResult

...

Other arguments to methods.

Value

For objects of class DBIDriver, dbGetInfo() returns a named list that contains at least the following components:

• driver.version: the package version of the DBI backend,

• client.version: the version of the DBMS client library.

For objects of class DBIConnection, dbGetInfo() returns a named list that contains at least the following components:

• db.version: version of the database server,

• dbname: database name,

• username: username to connect to the database,

• host: hostname of the database server,

• port: port on the database server. It must not contain a password component. Components that are not applicable should be set to NA.

For objects of class DBIResult, dbGetInfo() returns a named list that contains at least the following components:

• statatment: the statement used with dbSendQuery() or dbExecute(), as returned by dbGetStatement(),

• row.count: the number of rows fetched so far (for queries), as returned by dbGetRowCount(),

• rows.affected: the number of rows affected (for statements), as returned by dbGetRowsAffected()

• has.completed: a logical that indicates if the query or statement has completed, as returned by dbHasCompleted().

Implementation notes

The default implementation for ⁠DBIResult objects⁠ constructs such a list from the return values of the corresponding methods, dbGetStatement(), dbGetRowCount(), dbGetRowsAffected(), and dbHasCompleted().

See Also

Other DBIDriver generics: DBIDriver-class, dbCanConnect(), dbConnect(), dbDataType(), dbDriver(), dbIsReadOnly(), dbIsValid(), dbListConnections()

Other DBIConnection generics: DBIConnection-class, dbAppendTable(), dbAppendTableArrow(), dbCreateTable(), dbCreateTableArrow(), dbDataType(), dbDisconnect(), dbExecute(), dbExistsTable(), dbGetException(), dbGetQuery(), dbGetQueryArrow(), dbIsReadOnly(), dbIsValid(), dbListFields(), dbListObjects(), dbListResults(), dbListTables(), dbQuoteIdentifier(), dbReadTable(), dbReadTableArrow(), dbRemoveTable(), dbSendQuery(), dbSendQueryArrow(), dbSendStatement(), dbUnquoteIdentifier(), dbWriteTable(), dbWriteTableArrow()

Other DBIResult generics: DBIResult-class, dbBind(), dbClearResult(), dbColumnInfo(), dbFetch(), dbGetRowCount(), dbGetRowsAffected(), dbGetStatement(), dbHasCompleted(), dbIsReadOnly(), dbIsValid(), dbQuoteLiteral(), dbQuoteString()