Retrieves information on objects of class DBIDriver, DBIConnection or DBIResult.

# S4 method for DatabaseConnectorConnection
dbGetInfo(dbObj, ...)

Arguments

dbObj

An object inheriting from DBIObject, i.e. DBIDriver, DBIConnection, or a DBIResult

...

Other arguments to methods.

Value

For objects of class DBIDriver, dbGetInfo()

returns a named list that contains at least the following components:

  • driver.version: the package version of the DBI backend,

  • client.version: the version of the DBMS client library.

For objects of class DBIConnection, dbGetInfo()

returns a named list that contains at least the following components:

  • db.version: version of the database server,

  • dbname: database name,

  • username: username to connect to the database,

  • host: hostname of the database server,

  • port: port on the database server. It must not contain a password component. Components that are not applicable should be set to NA.

For objects of class DBIResult, dbGetInfo()

returns a named list that contains at least the following components: