"MariaDBConnection" objects are usually created by DBI::dbConnect().
They represent a connection to a MariaDB or MySQL database.
# S3 method for MariaDBConnection
format(x, ...)# S4 method for MariaDBConnection
dbDisconnect(conn, ...)
# S4 method for MariaDBConnection
dbGetInfo(dbObj, what = "", ...)
# S4 method for MariaDBConnection
dbIsValid(dbObj, ...)
# S4 method for MariaDBConnection
show(object)
The "MySQLConnection" class is a subclass of "MariaDBConnection".
Objects of that class are created by dbConnect(MariaDB(), ..., mysql = TRUE)
to indicate that the server is a MySQL server.
The RMariaDB package supports both MariaDB and MySQL servers, but the SQL dialect
and other details vary.
The default is to detect the server type based on the version number.
The older RMySQL package also implements the "MySQLConnection" class.
The S4 system is able to distinguish between RMariaDB and RMySQL objects
even if both packages are loaded.