Support for system catalogs

Full history: 699813b

refactor `dbListTables()` with `list_tables()`, now orders result by `table_type` and `table_name`
refactor `dbExistsTable()` with `list_tables()`
refactor `dbListObjects()` with `list_tables()`
merge `find_table()` code into `list_fields()`
`find_table()` isn't used anywhere else anymore (e.g. `exists_table()`)
simplify the "get current_schemas() as table" code
pass full `id` to `list_fields()`
align `dbExistsTable()` with `dbListFields()`
add some comments and whitespace
simplify `where_schema` in `list_tables()`
align `where_table` with `where_schema` in `list_tables()`
add `system_catalogs` argument to `dbConnect()`
add materialized view tests
`list_tables()`: query system catalogs if available
`list_fields()`: query system catalogs if available

R/PqConnection.R

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ setClass("PqConnection",
   slots = list(
     ptr = "externalptr",
     bigint = "character",
+    system_catalogs = "logical",
     timezone = "character",
     timezone_out = "character",
     typnames = "data.frame"

R/dbConnect_PqDriver.R

@@ -43,6 +43,13 @@
 #' @param check_interrupts Should user interrupts be checked during the query execution (before
 #'   first row of data is available)? Setting to `TRUE` allows interruption of queries
 #'   running too long.
+#' @param system_catalogs Should `dbList*()` functions query the [`system
+#'   catalogs`](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/catalogs.html) (`TRUE`)
+#'   or the
+#'   [`information_schema`](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/information-schema.html)?
+#'   The `information_schema` does not contain PostgreSQL-specific information,
+#'   in particular [Materialized
+#'   Views](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-creatematerializedview.html).
 #' @param timezone Sets the timezone for the connection. The default is `"UTC"`.
 #'   If `NULL` then no timezone is set, which defaults to the server's time zone.
 #' @param timezone_out The time zone returned to R, defaults to `timezone`.
@@ -60,7 +67,8 @@
 dbConnect_PqDriver <- function(drv, dbname = NULL,
                                host = NULL, port = NULL, password = NULL, user = NULL, service = NULL, ...,
                                bigint = c("integer64", "integer", "numeric", "character"),
-                               check_interrupts = FALSE, timezone = "UTC", timezone_out = NULL) {
+                               check_interrupts = FALSE, system_catalogs = TRUE,
+                               timezone = "UTC", timezone_out = NULL) {
   opts <- unlist(list(
     dbname = dbname, user = user, password = password,
     host = host, port = as.character(port), service = service, client_encoding = "utf8", ...
@@ -70,6 +78,7 @@ dbConnect_PqDriver <- function(drv, dbname = NULL,
   }
   bigint <- match.arg(bigint)
   stopifnot(is.logical(check_interrupts), all(!is.na(check_interrupts)), length(check_interrupts) == 1)
+  stopifnot(is.logical(system_catalogs))
   if (!is.null(timezone)) {
     stopifnot(is.character(timezone), all(!is.na(timezone)), length(timezone) == 1)
   }
@@ -85,7 +94,8 @@ dbConnect_PqDriver <- function(drv, dbname = NULL,
 
   # timezone is set later
   conn <- new("PqConnection",
-    ptr = ptr, bigint = bigint, timezone = character(), typnames = data.frame()
+    ptr = ptr, bigint = bigint, system_catalogs = system_catalogs,
+    timezone = character(), typnames = data.frame()
   )
   on.exit(dbDisconnect(conn))
 

R/dbConnect_RedshiftDriver.R

@@ -4,7 +4,22 @@ dbConnect_RedshiftDriver <- function(drv, dbname = NULL,
                                      host = NULL, port = NULL, password = NULL, user = NULL, service = NULL, ...,
                                      bigint = c("integer64", "integer", "numeric", "character"),
                                      check_interrupts = FALSE, timezone = "UTC") {
-  new("RedshiftConnection", callNextMethod())
+  new("RedshiftConnection",
+      callNextMethod(
+        drv = drv,
+        dbname = dbname,
+        host = host,
+        port = port,
+        password = password,
+        user = user,
+        service = service,
+        ...,
+        bigint = bigint,
+        check_interrupts = check_interrupts,
+        system_catalogs = FALSE,
+        timezone = timezone
+      )
+  )
 }
 
 #' @rdname Redshift

R/dbExistsTable_PqConnection_Id.R

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #' @rdname postgres-tables
 #' @usage NULL
 dbExistsTable_PqConnection_Id <- function(conn, name, ...) {
-  exists_table(conn, id = name@name)
+  exists_table(conn, id = name)
 }
 
 #' @rdname postgres-tables

R/dbExistsTable_PqConnection_character.R

@@ -2,10 +2,11 @@
 #' @usage NULL
 dbExistsTable_PqConnection_character <- function(conn, name, ...) {
   stopifnot(length(name) == 1L)
-  name <- dbQuoteIdentifier(conn, name)
-
-  # Convert to identifier
-  id <- dbUnquoteIdentifier(conn, name)[[1]]@name
+  # use (Un)QuoteIdentifier roundtrip instead of Id(table = name)
+  # so that quoted names (possibly incl. schema) can be passed to `name` e.g.
+  # name = dbQuoteIdentifier(conn, Id(schema = "sname", table = "tname"))
+  quoted <- dbQuoteIdentifier(conn, name)
+  id <- dbUnquoteIdentifier(conn, quoted)[[1]]
   exists_table(conn, id)
 }
 

R/dbListFields_PqConnection_Id.R

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #' @rdname postgres-tables
 #' @usage NULL
 dbListFields_PqConnection_Id <- function(conn, name, ...) {
-  list_fields(conn, name@name)
+  list_fields(conn, id = name)
 }
 
 #' @rdname postgres-tables

R/dbListFields_PqConnection_character.R

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 #' @usage NULL
 dbListFields_PqConnection_character <- function(conn, name, ...) {
   quoted <- dbQuoteIdentifier(conn, name)
-  id <- dbUnquoteIdentifier(conn, quoted)[[1]]@name
+  id <- dbUnquoteIdentifier(conn, quoted)[[1]]
 
   list_fields(conn, id)
 }

R/dbListObjects_PqConnection_ANY.R

@@ -13,10 +13,13 @@ dbListObjects_PqConnection_ANY <- function(conn, prefix = NULL, ...) {
       null_varchar <- "NULL::text"
     }
     query <- paste0(
-      "SELECT ", null_varchar, " AS schema, table_name AS table FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.tables\n",
-      "WHERE (table_schema = ANY(current_schemas(true))) AND (table_schema <> 'pg_catalog')\n",
+      "SELECT ", null_varchar, " AS schema, table_name AS table FROM ( \n",
+        list_tables(conn = conn, order_by = "table_type, table_name"),
+      ") as table_query \n",
       "UNION ALL\n",
-      "SELECT DISTINCT table_schema AS schema, ", null_varchar, " AS table FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.tables"
+      "SELECT DISTINCT table_schema AS schema, ", null_varchar, " AS table FROM ( \n",
+        list_tables(conn = conn, where_schema = "true"),
+      ") as schema_query;"
     )
   } else {
     if (!is.list(prefix)) prefix <- list(prefix)
@@ -27,10 +30,20 @@ dbListObjects_PqConnection_ANY <- function(conn, prefix = NULL, ...) {
     schemas <- vcapply(prefix[is_prefix], function(x) x@name[["schema"]])
     if (length(schemas) > 0) {
       schema_strings <- dbQuoteString(conn, schemas)
+      where_schema <-
+        paste0(
+          "table_schema IN (",
+          paste(schema_strings, collapse = ", "),
+          ") \n"
+        )
       query <- paste0(
-        "SELECT table_schema AS schema, table_name AS table FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.tables\n",
-        "WHERE ",
-        "(table_schema IN (", paste(schema_strings, collapse = ", "), "))"
+        "SELECT table_schema AS schema, table_name AS table FROM ( \n",
+          list_tables(
+            conn = conn,
+            where_schema = where_schema,
+            order_by = "table_type, table_name"
+          ),
+        ") as table_query"
       )
     }
   }

R/dbListTables_PqConnection.R

@@ -1,12 +1,9 @@
 #' @rdname postgres-tables
 #' @usage NULL
 dbListTables_PqConnection <- function(conn, ...) {
-  query <- paste0(
-    "SELECT table_name FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.tables ",
-    "WHERE ",
-    "(table_schema = ANY(current_schemas(true))) AND (table_schema <> 'pg_catalog')"
-  )
-  dbGetQuery(conn, query)[[1]]
+  query <- list_tables(conn = conn, order_by = "table_type, table_name")
+
+  dbGetQuery(conn, query)[["table_name"]]
 }
 
 #' @rdname postgres-tables