Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 22:32:47 -0700
From: Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>
To: CSN <cool_screen_name90001@yahoo.com>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: ruby/postgres - getting assoc array of rows?
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On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 08:14:40PM -0800, CSN wrote:
> Looking at the docs here:
> http://ruby.scripting.ca/postgres/reference.html
> 
> there doesn't appear to be an easy way to get an associative row
> of rows returns.

What exactly are you looking for?  The example you posted returns
an array of hashes, but depending on what you're doing all that
work might not be necessary.  PGconn#exec returns a PGresult object,
the PGresult#each iterator yields PGrow objects, and PGrow#[] accepts
both numeric and text indexes.  Example:

% psql -d test -c 'SELECT id, name FROM people'
 id | name  
----+-------
  1 | Alice
(1 row)

% cat test.rb
require 'postgres'
conn = PGconn.new('dbname=test')
res = conn.exec('SELECT id, name FROM people')
res.each do |row|
  puts "by name:     #{row['id']} #{row['name']}"
  puts "by position: #{row[0]} #{row[1]}"
end
res.clear
conn.close

% ruby test.rb
by name:     1 Alice
by position: 1 Alice

You could also convert the PGresult object into an array of PGrow
objects with a one-liner, although you wouldn't get automatic bytea
handling as in the function you posted:

rows = res.collect

Will any of this work for you?  If not then please provide more
detail.

-- 
Michael Fuhr