If no connection parameters are supplied, the
connection will fallback to default parameters. Usually
this establishes a connection on the localhost to a database,
if it exists, with the same name as the user.
Valid keywords and their defaults can be obtained by calling
get_conn_defaults(all = TRUE)
. A valid libpq
connection string is composed of keyword = value
pairs
separated by whitespace. You can either pass the entire string
or use named arguments. The names of the arguments will be used
as keywords and their values as values.
If a password was required but not provided, connect
will
will open a dialog and prompt for a password. The connection is
then re-tried and the status returned.
disconnect
will free any query results as well
as clean up the connection data. It is called in the pakcage
.Last.lib
function when exiting R
.
The make_service
function will write the current connection
settings to a special set of files recognized by PostgreSQL's libpq.
After calling this function, you will be able to reconnect using the
service name as in connect(service=name)
. If the connection
requires a password, that will be saved as well. This is not likely
to work on Windows since the file locations are different between
Unix-like and Windows. File a bug with the libpq folks if that
upsets you.