php-doc-en/reference/pdo_pgsql/reference.xml

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 <reference xml:id="ref.pdo-pgsql" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook">
  <?phpdoc extension-membership="bundledexternal" ?>
  <title>PostgreSQL Functions (PDO_PGSQL)</title>
  <titleabbrev>PostgreSQL (PDO)</titleabbrev>
  <partintro>

   <section xml:id="pdo-pgsql.intro">
   &reftitle.intro;
    <para>
     PDO_PGSQL is a driver that implements the <link linkend="intro.pdo">PHP
     Data Objects (PDO) interface</link>
     to enable access from PHP to PostgreSQL databases.
    </para>
   </section>

   <section xml:id="pdo-pgsql.resources">
    &reftitle.resources;
    <para>
     This extension defines a stream resource returned by
     <function>PDO::pgsqlLOBOpen</function>.
    </para>
   </section>

   &reference.pdo-pgsql.configure;

  </partintro>

  <refentry xml:id="ref.pdo-pgsql.connection">
   <refnamediv>
    <refname>PDO_PGSQL DSN</refname>
    <refpurpose>Connecting to PostgreSQL databases</refpurpose>
   </refnamediv>

   <refsect1 role="description">
    &reftitle.description;
    <para>
     The PDO_PGSQL Data Source Name (DSN) is composed of the following elements, delimited by spaces or semicolons:
     <variablelist>
      <varlistentry>
       <term>DSN prefix</term>
       <listitem>
        <para>
        The DSN prefix is <userinput>pgsql:</userinput>.
        </para>
       </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
       <term><literal>host</literal></term>
       <listitem>
        <para>
         The hostname on which the database server resides.
        </para>
       </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
       <term><literal>port</literal></term>
       <listitem>
        <para>
         The port on which the database server is running.
        </para>
       </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
       <term><literal>dbname</literal></term>
       <listitem>
        <para>
         The name of the database.
        </para>
       </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
       <term><literal>user</literal></term>
       <listitem>
        <para>
         The name of the user for the connection. If you specify the user name
         in the DSN, PDO ignores the value of the user name argument in the
         PDO constructor.
        </para>
       </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
       <term><literal>password</literal></term>
       <listitem>
        <para>
         The password of the user for the connection. If you specify the
         password in the DSN, PDO ignores the value of the password argument
         in the PDO constructor.
        </para>
       </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

     </variablelist>
    </para>
    <note>
     <para>
      The <literal>bytea</literal> fields are returned as streams.
     </para>
    </note>
   </refsect1>
   <refsect1 role="examples">
    &reftitle.examples;
    <para>
     <example>
      <title>PDO_PGSQL DSN examples</title>
      <para>
       The following example shows a PDO_PGSQL DSN for connecting to
       a PostgreSQL database:
       <programlisting><![CDATA[
pgsql:host=localhost;port=5432;dbname=testdb;user=bruce;password=mypass
]]>
       </programlisting>
      </para>
     </example>
    </para>
   </refsect1>
  </refentry>

  &reference.pdo-pgsql.entities.PDO;

 </reference>

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