From 93f8bd15a11d5292885d585669a61a7364d1a1b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Koziarski Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 05:03:34 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Provide access to the underlying database connection with Adapter#raw_connection, allows the use of db-specific methods such as postgresql's lo_* . Closes #2090 git-svn-id: http://svn-commit.rubyonrails.org/rails/trunk@3914 5ecf4fe2-1ee6-0310-87b1-e25e094e27de --- activerecord/CHANGELOG | 4 +++- .../active_record/connection_adapters/abstract_adapter.rb | 7 +++++++ 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/activerecord/CHANGELOG b/activerecord/CHANGELOG index 7068f83170..d80109b16d 100644 --- a/activerecord/CHANGELOG +++ b/activerecord/CHANGELOG @@ -1,6 +1,8 @@ *SVN* -* Remove broken attempts at handling columns with a a default of 'now()' in the postgresql adapter. #2257 [Koz] +* Provide access to the underlying database connection through Adapter#raw_connection. Enables the use of db-specific methods without complicating the adapters. #2090 [Koz] + +* Remove broken attempts at handling columns with a default of 'now()' in the postgresql adapter. #2257 [Koz] * Added connection#current_database that'll return of the current database (only works in MySQL, SQL Server, and Oracle so far -- please help implement for the rest of the adapters) #3663 [Tom ward] diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract_adapter.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract_adapter.rb index a52d7f4fb0..4eea7e5434 100755 --- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract_adapter.rb +++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract_adapter.rb @@ -86,6 +86,13 @@ def verify!(timeout) @last_verification = now end end + + # Provides access to the underlying database connection. Useful for + # when you need to call a proprietary method such as postgresql's lo_* + # methods + def raw_connection + @connection + end protected def log(sql, name) -- GitLab