These methods are straight-forward implementations of the corresponding generic functions.
an object of class PostgreSQLDriver, or
the character string "PostgreSQL" or an PostgreSQLConnection.
an PostgreSQLConnection object as produced by dbConnect.
Name or the numeric IPaddress of the host to connect to. If address is specified, it should be in the standard IPv4 address format, e.g., 172.28.40.9 or if your machine supports IPv6, you can also use those addresses. The default is to connect to localhost.
The database name. Defaults to 'template1' i.e if this argument is not specified, it is taken as dbname="template1".
PostgreSQL user name to connect as. Defaults to be the same as the operating system name of the user running the application.
Password to be used if the server demands password authentication.
Port number to connect to at the server host, or socket file name extension for Unix-domain connections.
Ignored (formerly, this specified where to send server debug output).
Command-line options to be sent to the server
logical if the communication of date (time stamp) from PostgreSQL is forced to ISO style at conection.
A connection between R/S-Plus and an PostgreSQL server is established. The current implementation supports up to 100 simultaneous connections.
See the Database Interface definition document
DBI.pdf in the base directory of this package
or http://stat.bell-labs.com/RS-DBI.
PostgreSQL,
dbConnect,
dbSendQuery,
dbGetQuery,
fetch,
dbCommit,
dbGetInfo,
dbReadTable.