Metacat

/**

 *  '$RCSfile$'

 *    Purpose: A db adapter class for Postgresql RDBMS.

 *  Copyright: 2000 Regents of the University of California and the

 *             National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis

 *    Authors: Jivka Bojilova

 *    Release: @release@

 *

 *   '$Author$'

 *     '$Date$'

 * '$Revision$'

 *

 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify

 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

 * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or

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 *

 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the

 * GNU General Public License for more details.

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 * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA

 */

package edu.ucsb.nceas.dbadapter;

import java.sql.*;

/**

 * The Oracle db adapter implementation.

 */

public class DBPostgresql extends DBAdapter {

  /**

   * The Postgresql unique ID /sequence generator

   * The name of the sequence used to generate the unique id 

   * is made from the name of the table that uses the id by 

   * appending "_id_seq" to it.

   *

   * @param conn db connection from which to generate the unique id

   * @param tableName the name of table which unique id to generate

   * @exception SQLException any SQLException that can be thrown 

   *            during the db operation

   * @return return the generated unique id as a long type

   */

  public long getUniqueID(Connection conn, String tableName) 

                                         throws SQLException {

    long uniqueid = 0;

    Statement stmt = conn.createStatement();

    stmt.execute("SELECT nextval('" + tableName + "_id_seq')");

    ResultSet rs = stmt.getResultSet();

    if ( rs.next() ) 

		{

      uniqueid = rs.getLong(1);

    }

    stmt.close();

    //System.out.println("Unique ID: " + uniqueid);    

    return uniqueid;

  }

  /**

   * The Postgresql function name that gets the current date 

   * from the database server

   *

   * @return return the current date and time function name: "sysdate"

   */

  public String getDateString() {

    //System.out.println("Current date string: " + "sysdate");    

    return "current_date";

		//for current time use current_time

  }

  /**

   * Postgresql's string delimiter character: single quote (')

   *

   * @return return the string delimiter: single quote (')

   */

  public String getStringDelimiter() {

    return "'";

  }

}