ext_set_dir: Set the DuckDB extension folder

In quak: Query 'Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2' with 'DuckDB'

Set the DuckDB extension folder

Description

Changes the path where DuckDB stores installed extension files for conn. The value is written to DuckDB's extension_directory setting.

Usage

ext_set_dir(path, conn = conn_default(), create = TRUE)

Arguments

path	Character scalar. Path to the extension directory.
conn	A DuckDB connection. Defaults to conn_default().
create	Logical. If TRUE, create path before setting it.

Value

Invisibly returns the normalized extension directory path.

Examples

conn <- DBI::dbConnect(duckdb::duckdb())
ext_set_dir(file.path(tempdir(), "quak-exts"), conn = conn)
DBI::dbDisconnect(conn, shutdown = TRUE)

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