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Diffstat (limited to 'activerecord')
| -rw-r--r-- | activerecord/CHANGELOG | 4 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract_adapter.rb | 7 |
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/activerecord/CHANGELOG b/activerecord/CHANGELOG index 7068f83170..d80109b16d 100644 --- a/activerecord/CHANGELOG +++ b/activerecord/CHANGELOG @@ -1,6 +1,8 @@ *SVN* -* Remove broken attempts at handling columns with a a default of 'now()' in the postgresql adapter. #2257 [Koz] +* Provide access to the underlying database connection through Adapter#raw_connection. Enables the use of db-specific methods without complicating the adapters. #2090 [Koz] + +* Remove broken attempts at handling columns with a default of 'now()' in the postgresql adapter. #2257 [Koz] * Added connection#current_database that'll return of the current database (only works in MySQL, SQL Server, and Oracle so far -- please help implement for the rest of the adapters) #3663 [Tom ward] diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract_adapter.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract_adapter.rb index a52d7f4fb0..4eea7e5434 100755 --- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract_adapter.rb +++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract_adapter.rb @@ -86,6 +86,13 @@ module ActiveRecord @last_verification = now end end + + # Provides access to the underlying database connection. Useful for + # when you need to call a proprietary method such as postgresql's lo_* + # methods + def raw_connection + @connection + end protected def log(sql, name) |