postgresqlBuildTableDefinition: Build the SQL CREATE TABLE definition as a string

In RPostgreSQL: R Interface to the 'PostgreSQL' Database System

Build the SQL CREATE TABLE definition as a string

Description

Build the SQL CREATE TABLE definition as a string for the input data.frame

Usage

postgresqlBuildTableDefinition(dbObj, name, obj, 
	field.types = NULL, row.names = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

dbObj	any DBI object (used only to dispatch according to the engine (e.g., MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQLite)
name	name of the new SQL table
obj	an R object coerceable to data.frame for which we want to create a table
field.types	optional named list of the types for each field in obj
row.names	logical, should row.name of value be exported as a row\_names field? Default is TRUE
...	reserved for future use

Details

The output SQL statement is a simple CREATE TABLE with suitable for dbGetQuery

Value

An SQL string

References

See the Database Interface definition document DBI.pdf in the base directory of this package or https://cran.r-project.org/package=DBI.

See Also

PostgreSQL, dbConnect, dbSendQuery, dbGetQuery, fetch, dbCommit, dbGetInfo, dbReadTable.

RPostgreSQL documentation built on April 4, 2025, 2:19 a.m.