NAME

Bigtop::Backend::SQL::Postgres - backend to generate sql for Postgres database creation

SYNOPSIS

If your bigtop file looks like this:

config {
    SQL  Postgres {}
}
app App::Name {
}

and there are table and/or sequence blocks in the app block, this module will make docs/schema.postgres (relative to the build_dir) when you type:

bigtop app.bigtop SQL

or

bigtop app.bigtop all

You can feed that file directly to psql, once you have created a database. That is type:

createdb dbname -U user
psql dbname -U user < docs/schema.postgres

DESCRIPTION

This is a Bigtop backend which generates SQL Postgres can understand.

KEYWORDS

This module defines no keywords. Look in Bigtop::SQL for a list of the keywords you can use in table and sequence blocks.

SHORTHAND for is arguments

This module does provide a couple of bits of shorthand (some aren't so short) for the arguments of the is field statement.

field id {
    is int4, primary_key, auto;
}

This translates into:

id int4 PRIMARY KEY DEFAULT NEXTVAL( 'your_sequence' ),

You can also type 'assign_by_sequence' instead of 'auto'. That might aid understanding, if you can type it correctly.

Note that using 'primary_key' instead of the literal 'PRIMARY KEY' is important. It tells the SQL and the Model back ends that this is the primary key.

METHODS

To keep podcoverage tests happy.

backend_block_keywords

Tells tentmaker that I understand these config section backend block keywords:

no_gen
template

what_do_you_make

Tells tentmaker what this module makes. Summary: docs/schema.postgres.

gen_SQL

Called by Bigtop::Parser to get me to do my thing.

setup_template

Called by Bigtop::Parser so the user can substitute an alternate template for the hard coded one here.

AUTHOR

Phil Crow <philcrow2000@yahoo.com>

COPYRIGHT and LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2005 by Phil Crow

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.6 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.