# Structure Postgres

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    (* Postgres -- interface to PostgreSQL database server -- requires Dynlib *)

    type dbconn                                   (* Connection to server *)
    type dbresult                                 (* Result of a query    *)
    eqtype oid                                    (* Internal object id   *)

    exception Closed                              (* Connection is closed *)
    exception Null                                (* Field value is NULL  *)

    (* Opening, closing, and maintaining database connections *)

    val openbase : { dbhost    : string option,   (* database server host *)
                     dbname    : string option,   (* database name        *)
                     dboptions : string option,   (* options              *)
                     dbport    : string option,   (* database server port *)
                     dbpwd     : string option,   (* user passwd          *)
                     dbtty     : string option,   (* tty for error log    *)
                     dbuser    : string option    (* database user        *)
                   } -> dbconn

    val closebase    : dbconn -> unit
    val db           : dbconn -> string
    val host         : dbconn -> string option
    val options      : dbconn -> string
    val port         : dbconn -> string
    val tty          : dbconn -> string

    val status       : dbconn -> bool
    val reset        : dbconn -> unit
    val errormessage : dbconn -> string option

    (* Query execution and result set information *)

    datatype dbresultstatus =
        Bad_response            (* An unexpected response was received    *)
      | Command_ok              (* The query was a command                *)
      | Copy_in                 (* The query was "copy <table> from ..."  *)
      | Copy_out                (* The query was "copy <table> to ..."    *)
      | Empty_query
      | Fatal_error
      | Nonfatal_error
      | Tuples_ok               (* The query successfully returned tuples *)

    val execute      : dbconn -> string -> dbresult
    val resultstatus : dbresult -> dbresultstatus
    val ntuples      : dbresult -> int
    val cmdtuples    : dbresult -> int
    val nfields      : dbresult -> int
    val fname        : dbresult -> int -> string
    val fnames       : dbresult -> string vector
    val fnumber      : dbresult -> string -> int option

    (* Accessing the fields of a resultset *)

    val getint       : dbresult -> int -> int -> int
    val getreal      : dbresult -> int -> int -> real
    val getstring    : dbresult -> int -> int -> string
    val getdate      : dbresult -> int -> int -> int * int * int   (* Y M D *)
    val gettime      : dbresult -> int -> int -> int * int * int   (* H M S *)
    val getdatetime  : dbresult -> int -> int -> Date.date
    val getbool      : dbresult -> int -> int -> bool
    val isnull       : dbresult -> int -> int -> bool

    datatype dynval =
        Bool of bool                        (* psql bool            *)
      | Int of int                          (* psql int4            *)
      | Real of real                        (* psql float8, float4  *)
      | String of string                    (* psql text, varchar   *)
      | Date of int * int * int             (* psql date yyyy-mm-dd *)
      | Time of int * int * int             (* psql time hh:mm:ss   *)
      | DateTime of Date.date               (* psql datetime        *)
      | Oid of oid                          (* psql oid             *)
      | Bytea of Word8Array.array           (* psql bytea           *)
      | NullVal                             (* psql NULL            *)

    val getdynfield : dbresult -> int -> int -> dynval
    val getdyntup   : dbresult -> int -> dynval vector
    val getdyntups  : dbresult -> dynval vector vector
    val dynval2s    : dynval -> string

    (* Bulk copying to or from a table *)

    val copytableto   : dbconn * string * (string -> unit) -> unit
    val copytablefrom : dbconn * string * ((string -> unit) -> unit) -> unit

    (* Some standard ML and Postgres types: *)

    datatype dyntype =
        BoolTy              (* ML bool              psql bool              *)
      | IntTy               (* ML int               psql int4              *)
      | RealTy              (* ML real              psql float8, float4    *)
      | StringTy            (* ML string            psql text, varchar     *)
      | DateTy              (* ML (yyyy, mth, day)  psql date              *)
      | TimeTy              (* ML (hh, mm, ss)      psql time              *)
      | DateTimeTy          (* ML Date.date         psql datetime, abstime *)
      | OidTy               (* ML oid               psql oid               *)
      | ByteArrTy           (* ML Word8Array.array  psql bytea             *)
      | UnknownTy of oid

    val fromtag : dyntype -> string
    val ftype   : dbresult -> int -> dyntype
    val ftypes  : dbresult -> dyntype Vector.vector

    val applyto : 'a -> ('a -> 'b) -> 'b

    (* Formatting the result of a database query as an HTML table *)

    val formattable : dbresult -> Msp.wseq
    val showquery   : dbconn -> string -> Msp.wseq

    (*

       (Technical warning: This expects the PostgreSQL server to use ISO
       date format, such as 2002-07-25.  Also, if the PostgreSQL server
       was compiled with support for multibyte-encodings (Unicode), the
       database must be created with
         createdb -E LATIN1 <dbname>
       or you should set the environment variable PGCLIENTENCODING to
       LATIN1 in the SML program's environment.)

       [dbconn] is the type of connections to a PostgreSQL database.

       [dbresult] is the type of result sets from SQL queries.

       [oid] is the type of PostgreSQL internal object identifiers.

       [openbase { dbhost, dbport, dboptions, dbtty, dbname, dbuser, dbpwd  }]
       opens a connection to a PostgreSQL database server on the given
       host (default the local one) on the given port (default 5432), with
       the given options (default the empty string), with error logging on
       the given tty (default?), to the given database (defaults to the
       user's login name), for the given user name (defaults to the
       current user's login name), and the given password (default none).
       The result is a connection which may be used in subsequent queries.

       [closebase dbconn] closes the database connection.  No further
       queries can be executed.

       [db dbconn] returns the name of the database.

       [host dbconn] returns SOME h, where h is the database server host
       name, if the connection uses the Internet; returns NONE if the
       connection is to a socket on the local server.

       [options dbconn] returns the options given when opening the database.

       [port dbconn] returns the port number of the connection.

       [tty dbconn] returns the name of the tty used for logging.

       [status dbconn] returns true if the connection is usable, false
       otherwise.

       [reset dbconn] attempts to close and then reopen the connection to
       the database server.

       [errormessage dbconn] returns NONE if no error occurred, and SOME msg
       if an error occurred, where msg describes the error.

       [execute dbconn query] sends an SQL query to the database server
       for execution, and returns a resultset dbres.

       [resultstatus dbres] returns the status of the result set dbres.
       After a select query that succeeded, it will be Tuples_ok.

       [ntuples dbres] returns the number of tuples in the result set
       after a query.

       [cmdtuples dbres] returns the number of tuples affected by an
       insert, update, or delete SQL command.

       [nfields dbres] returns the number of fields in each tuple after a
       query.

       [fname dbres fno] returns the name of field number fno (in the
       result set after a query).  The fields are numbered 0, 1,...

       [fnames dbres] returns a vector of the field names (in the result
       set after a query).

       [fnumber dbres fname] returns SOME i where i is the number (0, 1,
       ...) of the field called fname (in the result set after a query),
       if the result set contains such a field name; returns NONE otherwise.

       [ftype dbres fno] returns the dyntype of field number fno (in the
       result set after a query).

       [ftypes dbres] returns a vector of the dyntypes (in the result set
       after a query).

       [fromtag dt] returns the name of the preferred PostgreSQL type used
       to represent values of the dyntype dt.  This may be used when
       building `create table' statements.

       [getint dbres fno tupno] returns the integer value of field number
       fno in tuple tupno of result set dbres.  Raises Null if the value
       is NULL.

       [getreal dbres fno tupno] returns the floating-point value of field
       number fno in tuple tupno of result set dbres.  Raises Null if the
       value is NULL.

       [getstring dbres fno tupno] returns the string value of field
       number fno in tuple tupno of result set dbres.  Raises Null if the
       value is NULL.

       [getdate dbres fno tupno] returns the date (yyyy, mth, day) value
       of field number fno in tuple tupno of result set dbres.  Raises
       Null if the value is NULL.  Raises Fail if the field cannot be
       scanned as a date.

       [gettime dbres fno tupno] returns the time-of-day (hh, mm, ss)
       value of field number fno in tuple tupno of result set dbres.
       Raises Null if the value is NULL.  Raises Fail if the field cannot
       be scanned as a time.

       [getdatetime dbres fno tupno] returns the Date.date value of field
       number fno in tuple tupno of result set dbres.  Raises Null if the
       value is NULL.  Raises Fail if the field cannot be scanned as a
       date.

       [getbool dbres fno tupno] returns the boolean value of field number
       fno in tuple tupno of result set dbres.  Raises Null if the value
       is NULL.

       [isnull dbres fno tupno] returns true if the value of field number
       fno in tuple tupno of result set dbres is NULL; false otherwise.

       [getdynfield dbres fno tupno] returns the value of field number fno
       in tuple tupno of result set dbres as a dynval (a wrapped value).
       A NULL value is returned as NullVal.  Note that the partial
       application  (getdynfield dbres fno)  precomputes the type of the
       field fno.  Hence it is far more efficient to compute
            let val getfno = getdynfield dbres fno
            in tabulate(ntuples dbres, getfno) end
       than to compute
            let fun getfno tupno = getdynfield dbres fno tupno
            in tabulate(ntuples dbres, getfno) end
       because the latter repeatedly computes the type of the field.

       [getdyntup dbres tupno] returns the fields of tuple tupno in result
       set dbres as a vector of dynvals.

       [getdyntups dbres] returns all tuples of result set dbres as a
       vector of vectors of dynvals.

       [dynval2s dv] returns a string representing the dynval dv.

       [applyto x f] computes f(x).  This is convenient for applying
       several functions (given in a list or vector) to the same value:
          map (applyto 5) (tabulate(3, getdynfield dbres))
       equals
          [getdynfield dbres 0 5, getdynfield dbres 1 5, getdynfield dbres 2 5]

       [copytableto(dbconn, tablename, put)] executes a "COPY TABLE TO"
       statement, applies the function put to every tuple of the table,
       represented as a line of text (not terminated by newline \n), and
       cleans up at the end.  For instance, to copy the contents of a
       table t to a text stream s (one tuple on each line), define
          fun put line =
              (TextIO.output(s, line); TextIO.output(s, "\n"))
       and execute
          copytableto(dbconn, "t", put).

       [copytablefrom(dbconn, tablename, useput)] executes a "COPY TABLE
       FROM" statement, creates a put function for copying lines to the
       table, passes the put function to useput, and cleans up at the end.
       The put function may be called multiple times for each line
       (tuple); the end of each line is indicated with the newline
       character "\n" as usual.  For instance, to copy the contents of a
       text stream s to a table t, define
          fun useput put =
              while not (TextIO.endOfStream s) do put(TextIO.inputLine s);
       and execute
          copytablefrom(dbconn, "t", useput).
       Note that TextIO.inputLine preserves the newline at the end of each
       line.

       [formattable dbresult] returns a wseq representing an HTML table.
       The HTML table has a column for every field in the dbresult.  The
       first row is a table header giving the names of the fields in the
       dbresult.  The remaining rows correspond to the tuples in the
       dbresult, in the order they are provided by the database server.
       Null fields are shown as NULL.

       [showquery dbconn query] sends the SQL query to the database
       server, then uses formattable to format the result of the query.
    *)

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