spec_sql_quote_identifier: spec_sql_quote_identifier

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spec_sql_quote_identifier

Description

spec_sql_quote_identifier

Value

dbQuoteIdentifier() returns an object that can be coerced to character, of the same length as the input. For an empty character vector this function returns a length-0 object. The names of the input argument are preserved in the output. When passing the returned object again to dbQuoteIdentifier() as x argument, it is returned unchanged. Passing objects of class SQL should also return them unchanged. (For backends it may be most convenient to return SQL objects to achieve this behavior, but this is not required.)

Failure modes

An error is raised if the input contains NA, but not for an empty string.

Specification

Calling dbGetQuery() for a query of the format ⁠SELECT 1 AS ...⁠ returns a data frame with the identifier, unquoted, as column name. Quoted identifiers can be used as table and column names in SQL queries, in particular in queries like ⁠SELECT 1 AS ...⁠ and ⁠SELECT * FROM (SELECT 1) ...⁠. The method must use a quoting mechanism that is unambiguously different from the quoting mechanism used for strings, so that a query like ⁠SELECT ... FROM (SELECT 1 AS ...)⁠ throws an error if the column names do not match.

The method can quote column names that contain special characters such as a space, a dot, a comma, or quotes used to mark strings or identifiers, if the database supports this. In any case, checking the validity of the identifier should be performed only when executing a query, and not by dbQuoteIdentifier().

See Also

Other sql specifications: spec_sql_append_table, spec_sql_create_table, spec_sql_exists_table, spec_sql_list_fields, spec_sql_list_objects, spec_sql_list_tables, spec_sql_quote_literal, spec_sql_quote_string, spec_sql_read_table, spec_sql_remove_table, spec_sql_unquote_identifier, spec_sql_write_table

DBItest documentation built on June 22, 2024, 11:55 a.m.