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CXJ
CXJ

Reputation: 4459

PHP PDO Postgres versus Sqlite column type for count(*)

Using PHP PDO with this SQL statement

SELECT count(*) FROM my_table;

returns an INTEGER with Postgres and a STRING with Sqlite3. That is, if there is one row in the table, Postgres returns (int)1 and Sqlite returns '1'.

Is this as intended, or is this a bug?

[edit to add below]

In case you want to follow along at home, here's a demonstration script I threw together. I actually encountered this when my PHPUnit tests passed (using in-memory Sqlite as a test fixture) and but my application failed using the production Postrgres database.

<?php
function connect($dsn)
{
    try {
        $pdo = new \PDO($dsn);
    }
    catch (\PDOException $e) {
        echo 'New PDO failed: ' . $e->getMessage() . PHP_EOL;
        exit;
    }
    return $pdo;
}

function doQuery($pdo, $sql)
{
    if ( ($result = $pdo->query($sql)) === false) {
        echo "'$sql' failed: " . print_r($pdo->errorInfo(), true) . PHP_EOL;
    }
    return $result;
}

$pgo = connect('pgsql:host=localhost;dbname=postgres');
$sqo = connect('sqlite::memory:');

doQuery($pgo, 'DROP TABLE IF EXISTS public.foo');
doQuery($pgo, 'CREATE TABLE public.foo ( ii int )');
doQuery($pgo, 'INSERT INTO public.foo VALUES (42)');

doQuery($sqo, "ATTACH DATABASE ':memory:' AS public;") or die();
doQuery($sqo, 'DROP TABLE IF EXISTS public.foo');
doQuery($sqo, 'CREATE TABLE public.foo ( ii int )');
doQuery($sqo, 'INSERT INTO public.foo VALUES (42)');

$pgResult = doQuery($pgo, 'SELECT COUNT(ii) FROM foo');
echo 'Postgres: ';
var_dump($pgResult->fetchColumn());

echo 'Sqlite3: ';
$ltResult = doQuery($sqo, 'SELECT COUNT(ii) FROM foo');
var_dump($ltResult->fetchColumn());

Upvotes: 2

Views: 286

Answers (2)

CXJ
CXJ

Reputation: 4459

Reported and accepted as a PHP PDO bug:

https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=72798

Upvotes: 0

e4c5
e4c5

Reputation: 53744

This is a side effect of sqlite not having datatypes. Or rather, having what they call the dynamic type system. But quite interestingly 

SELECT TYPEOF(b) FROM ( select count(*) as b from my_table) a;

produces integer as the output! So clearly something is being lost in translation from sqlite to php. However it doesn't really matter because in php '1' + 2 gives 3. Because let's not forget, PHP is also a dynamic typed system.

Upvotes: 1

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