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function DatabaseSchema_pgsql::createFieldSql

Create an SQL string for a field to be used in table creation or alteration.

Before passing a field out of a schema definition into this function it has to be processed by _db_process_field().

Parameters

$name: Name of the field.

$spec: The field specification, as per the schema data structure format.

2 calls to DatabaseSchema_pgsql::createFieldSql()
DatabaseSchema_pgsql::addField in includes/database/pgsql/schema.inc
Add a new field to a table.
DatabaseSchema_pgsql::createTableSql in includes/database/pgsql/schema.inc
Generate SQL to create a new table from a Drupal schema definition.

File

includes/database/pgsql/schema.inc, line 279

Class

DatabaseSchema_pgsql

Code

protected function createFieldSql($name, $spec) {
 $sql = $name . ' ' . $spec['pgsql_type'];
 if (isset($spec['type']) && $spec['type'] == 'serial') {
 unset($spec['not null']);
 }
 if (in_array ($spec['pgsql_type'], array(
 'varchar',
 'character',
 'text',
 )) && isset($spec['length'])) {
 $sql .= '(' . $spec['length'] . ')';
 }
 elseif (isset($spec['precision']) && isset($spec['scale'])) {
 $sql .= '(' . $spec['precision'] . ', ' . $spec['scale'] . ')';
 }
 if (!empty($spec['unsigned'])) {
 $sql .= " CHECK ({$name} >= 0)";
 }
 if (isset($spec['not null'])) {
 if ($spec['not null']) {
 $sql .= ' NOT NULL';
 }
 else {
 $sql .= ' NULL';
 }
 }
 if (isset($spec['default'])) {
 $default = is_string ($spec['default']) ? "'" . $spec['default'] . "'" : $spec['default'];
 $sql .= " default {$default}";
 }
 return $sql;
}

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