Class Fastpath

java.lang.Object
org.postgresql.fastpath.Fastpath

@Deprecated public class Fastpath extends Object
Deprecated.
This API is somewhat obsolete, as one may achieve similar performance and greater functionality by setting up a prepared statement to define the function call. Then, executing the statement with binary transmission of parameters and results substitutes for a fast-path function call.

This class implements the Fastpath api.

This is a means of executing functions embedded in the backend from within a java application.

It is based around the file src/interfaces/libpq/fe-exec.c

  • Constructor Details

    • Fastpath

      public Fastpath(BaseConnection conn)
      Deprecated.
      Initialises the fastpath system.
      Parameters:
      conn - BaseConnection to attach to
  • Method Details

    • fastpath

      @Deprecated public @Nullable Object fastpath(int fnId, boolean resultType, FastpathArg[] args) throws SQLException
      Deprecated.
      Send a function call to the PostgreSQL backend.
      Parameters:
      fnId - Function id
      resultType - True if the result is a numeric (Integer or Long)
      args - FastpathArguments to pass to fastpath
      Returns:
      null if no data, Integer if an integer result, Long if a long result, or byte[] otherwise
      Throws:
      SQLException - if a database-access error occurs.
    • fastpath

      public byte @Nullable [] fastpath(int fnId, FastpathArg[] args) throws SQLException
      Deprecated.
      Send a function call to the PostgreSQL backend.
      Parameters:
      fnId - Function id
      args - FastpathArguments to pass to fastpath
      Returns:
      null if no data, byte[] otherwise
      Throws:
      SQLException - if a database-access error occurs.
    • fastpath

      @Deprecated public @Nullable Object fastpath(String name, boolean resulttype, FastpathArg[] args) throws SQLException
      Deprecated.
      Use getData(String, FastpathArg[]) if you expect a binary result, or one of getInteger(String, FastpathArg[]) or getLong(String, FastpathArg[]) if you expect a numeric one
      Parameters:
      name - Function name
      resulttype - True if the result is a numeric (Integer or Long)
      args - FastpathArguments to pass to fastpath
      Returns:
      null if no data, Integer if an integer result, Long if a long result, or byte[] otherwise
      Throws:
      SQLException - if something goes wrong
      See Also:
    • fastpath

      public byte @Nullable [] fastpath(String name, FastpathArg[] args) throws SQLException
      Deprecated.

      Send a function call to the PostgreSQL backend by name.

      Note: the mapping for the procedure name to function id needs to exist, usually to an earlier call to addfunction().

      This is the preferred method to call, as function id's can/may change between versions of the backend.

      For an example of how this works, refer to org.postgresql.largeobject.LargeObject

      Parameters:
      name - Function name
      args - FastpathArguments to pass to fastpath
      Returns:
      null if no data, byte[] otherwise
      Throws:
      SQLException - if name is unknown or if a database-access error occurs.
      See Also:
    • getInteger

      public int getInteger(String name, FastpathArg[] args) throws SQLException
      Deprecated.
      This convenience method assumes that the return value is an integer.
      Parameters:
      name - Function name
      args - Function arguments
      Returns:
      integer result
      Throws:
      SQLException - if a database-access error occurs or no result
    • getLong

      public long getLong(String name, FastpathArg[] args) throws SQLException
      Deprecated.
      This convenience method assumes that the return value is a long (bigint).
      Parameters:
      name - Function name
      args - Function arguments
      Returns:
      long result
      Throws:
      SQLException - if a database-access error occurs or no result
    • getOID

      public long getOID(String name, FastpathArg[] args) throws SQLException
      Deprecated.
      This convenience method assumes that the return value is an oid.
      Parameters:
      name - Function name
      args - Function arguments
      Returns:
      oid of the given call
      Throws:
      SQLException - if a database-access error occurs or no result
    • getData

      public byte @Nullable [] getData(String name, FastpathArg[] args) throws SQLException
      Deprecated.
      This convenience method assumes that the return value is not an Integer.
      Parameters:
      name - Function name
      args - Function arguments
      Returns:
      byte[] array containing result
      Throws:
      SQLException - if a database-access error occurs or no result
    • addFunction

      public void addFunction(String name, int fnid)
      Deprecated.

      This adds a function to our lookup table.

      User code should use the addFunctions method, which is based upon a query, rather than hard coding the oid. The oid for a function is not guaranteed to remain static, even on different servers of the same version.

      Parameters:
      name - Function name
      fnid - Function id
    • addFunctions

      public void addFunctions(ResultSet rs) throws SQLException
      Deprecated.

      This takes a ResultSet containing two columns. Column 1 contains the function name, Column 2 the oid.

      It reads the entire ResultSet, loading the values into the function table.

      REMEMBER to close() the resultset after calling this!!

      Implementation note about function name lookups:

      PostgreSQL stores the function id's and their corresponding names in the pg_proc table. To speed things up locally, instead of querying each function from that table when required, a HashMap is used. Also, only the function's required are entered into this table, keeping connection times as fast as possible.

      The org.postgresql.largeobject.LargeObject class performs a query upon it's startup, and passes the returned ResultSet to the addFunctions() method here.

      Once this has been done, the LargeObject api refers to the functions by name.

      Don't think that manually converting them to the oid's will work. Ok, they will for now, but they can change during development (there was some discussion about this for V7.0), so this is implemented to prevent any unwarranted headaches in the future.

      Parameters:
      rs - ResultSet
      Throws:
      SQLException - if a database-access error occurs.
      See Also:
    • getID

      public int getID(String name) throws SQLException
      Deprecated.

      This returns the function id associated by its name.

      If addFunction() or addFunctions() have not been called for this name, then an SQLException is thrown.

      Parameters:
      name - Function name to lookup
      Returns:
      Function ID for fastpath call
      Throws:
      SQLException - is function is unknown.
    • createOIDArg

      public static FastpathArg createOIDArg(long oid)
      Deprecated.
      Creates a FastpathArg with an oid parameter. This is here instead of a constructor of FastpathArg because the constructor can't tell the difference between an long that's really int8 and a long thats an oid.
      Parameters:
      oid - input oid
      Returns:
      FastpathArg with an oid parameter