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Doc Bug #72058 pg_field_num Error with Quoted Aliases
Submitted: 2016-04-19 12:56 UTC Modified: 2021-08-09 14:03 UTC
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Reproduced:3 of 3 (100.0%)
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From: klaxian at gmail dot com Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: PostgreSQL related
PHP Version: 5.5.34 OS: Debian Linux
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 [2016-04-19 12:56 UTC] klaxian at gmail dot com
Description:
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When selecting data from a PostgreSQL database using quoted aliases for column names (to preserve case, for example), pg_field_num() seems to expect its input to also contain double quotes.  However, returned values from functions like pg_field_name() and pg_fetch_assoc() do not contain double quotes.  PostgreSQL's own client also does not include double quotes in the resulting column names.  Even if the behavior of pg_field_num is intentional, there does not seem to be a way to determine if field aliases have been quoted using the result resource only.

I suggest fixing pg_field_num() so that it is consistent with the other PostgreSQL functions.  I would expect the function to accept the actual field name, not encapsulated in double quotes.

Test script:
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$result = pg_query('SELECT \'test\' AS "TeSt"');
var_dump(pg_field_name($result, 0)); // returns TeSt
var_dump(pg_field_num($result, 'TeSt')); // returns -1 (error)
var_dump(pg_field_num($result, '"TeSt"')); // returns 0 (first column)


Expected result:
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I expect pg_field_num($result, 'TeSt') to return 0 instead of an error.

Actual result:
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-1

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 [2020-03-03 11:53 UTC] marcel at wieland dot koeln
Same with pg_fetch_result().
 [2020-03-04 12:24 UTC] tobias dot john at foo dot ag
This ist still present in PHP 7.4.1.
 [2021-08-09 14:03 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Verified -Type: Bug +Type: Documentation Problem
 [2021-08-09 14:03 UTC] cmb@php.net
pg_field_num() is a thin wrapper of PQfnumber()[1], and this is
how this function behaves:

| The given name is treated like an identifier in an SQL command,
| that is, it is downcased unless double-quoted.

In other words, this is not a bug, but rather should be documented
in the PHP manual.

[1] <https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/libpq-exec.html#LIBPQ-PQFNUMBER>
 [2021-11-11 11:33 UTC] git@php.net
Automatic comment on behalf of cmb69
Revision: https://github.com/php/doc-en/commit/6fcf14255c6027d7adf48a5f71f6a1c9a12018b2
Log: Fix #72058: pg_field_num Error with Quoted Aliases
 [2021-11-11 11:33 UTC] git@php.net
-Status: Verified +Status: Closed
 
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