R/execquery.R

In CITAN: CITation ANalysis toolpack

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#' @include biblio.internal.R
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#' Executes an SQL query and immediately frees all allocated resources.
#'
#' This function may be used to execute queries like \code{CREATE TABLE},
#' \code{UPDATE}, \code{INSERT}, etc.
#'
#' It has its own exception handler, which prints out detailed information
#' on caught errors.
#'
#' @title Execute a query and free its resources
#' @param conn a \code{DBI} connection object.
#' @param statement a character string with the SQL statement to be executed.
#' @param rollbackOnError logical; if \code{TRUE}, then the function executes rollback on current transaction if an exception occurs.
#' @seealso \code{\link{dbSendQuery}}, \code{\link{dbClearResult}}, \code{\link{dbGetQuery}}
#' @export
dbExecQuery <- function(conn, statement, rollbackOnError=FALSE)
{
   if (!is.character(statement) || length(statement)!=1)
      stop("incorrect 'statement'");

   tryCatch(res <- dbSendQuery(conn, statement),
      error=function(err)
      {
         cat("\n\n*** SQL Exception caught ***\n\n");
         cat(sprintf("Statement: %s\n", statement));

         ex <- dbGetException(conn);

         if (rollbackOnError) dbRollback(conn);
         print(ex);
         stop("stopping on SQL exception.");
      }
   );

   dbClearResult(res);
}