[R-sig-DB] DBI column names
Seth Falcon
@|@|con @end|ng |rom |hcrc@org
Tue Jul 24 01:55:47 CEST 2007
>> Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
>> > It seems that the DBI package changes column names that have
>> > dots in them replacing the dots with underscores. Is this really
>> > necessary?
The DBI package provides a generic make.db.names and a deafult
method. In RSQLite, I believe this is only called when tables are
created using dbWriteTable. So it isn't as if DBI (or RSQLite) is
preventing you from using (strange) column names in your DBs. -- Just
making it a bit difficult ;-)
The problem with changing this function is that anyone relying on
(coding around) this feature is going to get bitten. Maybe we want an
additional argument to the dbWriteTable method?
+ seth
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