dbTableNameFix: Format input for database schema/table names.

In rpostgisLT: Managing Animal Movement Data with 'PostGIS' and R

Description

Internal rpostgis function to return common (length = 2) schema and table name vector from various table and schema + table name inputs.

Usage

dbTableNameFix(conn = NULL, t.nm, as.identifier = TRUE)

Arguments

conn	A connection object. Must be provided but can be set NULL, where a dummy connection will be used.
t.nm	Table name string, length 1-2.
as.identifier	Boolean whether to return (schema,table) name as database sanitized identifiers (TRUE) or as regular character (FALSE)

Value

character vector of length 2. Each character element is in (escaped) double-quotes when as.identifier = TRUE.

Author(s)

David Bucklin

Examples

## Not run: 
name<-c("schema","table")
dbTableNameFix(conn,name)

#current search path schema is added to single-length character object (if only table is given)
name<-"table"
dbTableNameFix(conn,name)

#schema or table names with double quotes should be given exactly as they are 
(make sure to wrap in single quotes in R):
name<-c('sch"ema','"table"')
dbTableNameFix(conn,name)

## End(Not run)

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