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Diffstat (limited to 'connectivity/inc/connectivity/dbmetadata.hxx')
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diff --git a/connectivity/inc/connectivity/dbmetadata.hxx b/connectivity/inc/connectivity/dbmetadata.hxx index 1ee1718247ae..4cfab247c10f 100644 --- a/connectivity/inc/connectivity/dbmetadata.hxx +++ b/connectivity/inc/connectivity/dbmetadata.hxx @@ -121,6 +121,17 @@ namespace dbtools */ bool supportsSubqueriesInFrom() const; + /** checks whether the database supports primary keys + + Since there's no dedicated API to ask a database for this, a heuristics needs to be applied. + First, the <code>PrimaryKeySupport<code> settings of the data source is examined. If it is <TRUE/> + or <FALSE/>, then value is returned. If it is <NULL/>, then the database meta data are examined + for support of core SQL grammar, and the result is returned. The assumption is that a database/driver + which supports core SQL grammar usually also supports primary keys, and vice versa. At least, experience + shows this is true most of the time. + */ + bool supportsPrimaryKeys() const; + /** determines whether names in the database should be restricted to SQL-92 identifiers Effectively, this method checks the EnableSQL92Check property of the data source settings, |