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-Active Record and PostgreSQL
-============================
-
-This guide covers PostgreSQL specific usage of Active Record.
-
-After reading this guide, you will know:
-
-* How to use PostgreSQL's datatypes.
-* How to use UUID primary keys.
-* How to implement full text search with PostgreSQL.
-* How to back your Active Record models with database views.
-
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-In order to use the PostgreSQL adapter you need to have at least version 8.2
-installed. Older versions are not supported.
-
-To get started with PostgreSQL have a look at the
-[configuring Rails guide](configuring.html#configuring-a-postgresql-database).
-It describes how to properly setup Active Record for PostgreSQL.
-
-Datatypes
----------
-
-PostgreSQL offers a number of specific datatypes. Following is a list of types,
-that are supported by the PostgreSQL adapter.
-
-### Bytea
-
-* [type definition](http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/datatype-binary.html)
-* [functions and operators](http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/functions-binarystring.html)
-
-```ruby
-# db/migrate/20140207133952_create_documents.rb
-create_table :documents do |t|
-  t.binary 'payload'
-end
-
-# app/models/document.rb
-class Document < ActiveRecord::Base
-end
-
-# Usage
-data = File.read(Rails.root + "tmp/output.pdf")
-Document.create payload: data
-```
-
-### Array
-
-* [type definition](http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/arrays.html)
-* [functions and operators](http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/functions-array.html)
-
-```ruby
-# db/migrate/20140207133952_create_books.rb
-create_table :books do |t|
-  t.string 'title'
-  t.string 'tags', array: true
-  t.integer 'ratings', array: true
-end
-add_index :books, :tags, using: 'gin'
-add_index :books, :ratings, using: 'gin'
-
-# app/models/book.rb
-class Book < ActiveRecord::Base
-end
-
-# Usage
-Book.create title: "Brave New World",
-            tags: ["fantasy", "fiction"],
-            ratings: [4, 5]
-
-## Books for a single tag
-Book.where("'fantasy' = ANY (tags)")
-
-## Books for multiple tags
-Book.where("tags @> ARRAY[?]::varchar[]", ["fantasy", "fiction"])
-
-## Books with 3 or more ratings
-Book.where("array_length(ratings, 1) >= 3")
-```
-
-### Hstore
-
-* [type definition](http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/hstore.html)
-
-```ruby
-# db/migrate/20131009135255_create_profiles.rb
-ActiveRecord::Schema.define do
-  create_table :profiles do |t|
-    t.hstore 'settings'
-  end
-end
-
-# app/models/profile.rb
-class Profile < ActiveRecord::Base
-end
-
-# Usage
-Profile.create(settings: { "color" => "blue", "resolution" => "800x600" })
-
-profile = Profile.first
-profile.settings # => {"color"=>"blue", "resolution"=>"800x600"}
-
-profile.settings = {"color" => "yellow", "resolution" => "1280x1024"}
-profile.save!
-```
-
-### JSON
-
-* [type definition](http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/datatype-json.html)
-* [functions and operators](http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/functions-json.html)
-
-```ruby
-# db/migrate/20131220144913_create_events.rb
-create_table :events do |t|
-  t.json 'payload'
-end
-
-# app/models/event.rb
-class Event < ActiveRecord::Base
-end
-
-# Usage
-Event.create(payload: { kind: "user_renamed", change: ["jack", "john"]})
-
-event = Event.first
-event.payload # => {"kind"=>"user_renamed", "change"=>["jack", "john"]}
-
-## Query based on JSON document
-# The -> operator returns the original JSON type (which might be an object), whereas ->> returns text
-Event.where("payload->>'kind' = ?", "user_renamed")
-```
-
-### Range Types
-
-* [type definition](http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/rangetypes.html)
-* [functions and operators](http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/functions-range.html)
-
-This type is mapped to Ruby [`Range`](http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-2.1.1/Range.html) objects.
-
-```ruby
-# db/migrate/20130923065404_create_events.rb
-create_table :events do |t|
-  t.daterange 'duration'
-end
-
-# app/models/event.rb
-class Event < ActiveRecord::Base
-end
-
-# Usage
-Event.create(duration: Date.new(2014, 2, 11)..Date.new(2014, 2, 12))
-
-event = Event.first
-event.duration # => Tue, 11 Feb 2014...Thu, 13 Feb 2014
-
-## All Events on a given date
-Event.where("duration @> ?::date", Date.new(2014, 2, 12))
-
-## Working with range bounds
-event = Event.
-  select("lower(duration) AS starts_at").
-  select("upper(duration) AS ends_at").first
-
-event.starts_at # => Tue, 11 Feb 2014
-event.ends_at # => Thu, 13 Feb 2014
-```
-
-### Composite Types
-
-* [type definition](http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/rowtypes.html)
-
-Currently there is no special support for composite types. They are mapped to
-normal text columns:
-
-```sql
-CREATE TYPE full_address AS
-(
-  city VARCHAR(90),
-  street VARCHAR(90)
-);
-```
-
-```ruby
-# db/migrate/20140207133952_create_contacts.rb
-execute <<-SQL
- CREATE TYPE full_address AS
- (
-   city VARCHAR(90),
-   street VARCHAR(90)
- );
-SQL
-create_table :contacts do |t|
-  t.column :address, :full_address
-end
-
-# app/models/contact.rb
-class Contact < ActiveRecord::Base
-end
-
-# Usage
-Contact.create address: "(Paris,Champs-Élysées)"
-contact = Contact.first
-contact.address # => "(Paris,Champs-Élysées)"
-contact.address = "(Paris,Rue Basse)"
-contact.save!
-```
-
-### Enumerated Types
-
-* [type definition](http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/datatype-enum.html)
-
-Currently there is no special support for enumerated types. They are mapped as
-normal text columns:
-
-```ruby
-# db/migrate/20131220144913_create_articles.rb
-execute <<-SQL
-  CREATE TYPE article_status AS ENUM ('draft', 'published');
-SQL
-create_table :articles do |t|
-  t.column :status, :article_status
-end
-
-# app/models/article.rb
-class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
-end
-
-# Usage
-Article.create status: "draft"
-article = Article.first
-article.status # => "draft"
-
-article.status = "published"
-article.save!
-```
-
-### UUID
-
-* [type definition](http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/datatype-uuid.html)
-* [generator functions](http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/uuid-ossp.html)
-
-
-```ruby
-# db/migrate/20131220144913_create_revisions.rb
-create_table :revisions do |t|
-  t.column :identifier, :uuid
-end
-
-# app/models/revision.rb
-class Revision < ActiveRecord::Base
-end
-
-# Usage
-Revision.create identifier: "A0EEBC99-9C0B-4EF8-BB6D-6BB9BD380A11"
-
-revision = Revision.first
-revision.identifier # => "a0eebc99-9c0b-4ef8-bb6d-6bb9bd380a11"
-```
-
-### Bit String Types
-
-* [type definition](http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/datatype-bit.html)
-* [functions and operators](http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/functions-bitstring.html)
-
-```ruby
-# db/migrate/20131220144913_create_users.rb
-create_table :users, force: true do |t|
-  t.column :settings, "bit(8)"
-end
-
-# app/models/device.rb
-class User < ActiveRecord::Base
-end
-
-# Usage
-User.create settings: "01010011"
-user = User.first
-user.settings # => "01010011"
-user.settings = "0xAF"
-user.settings # => 10101111
-user.save!
-```
-
-### Network Address Types
-
-* [type definition](http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/datatype-net-types.html)
-
-The types `inet` and `cidr` are mapped to Ruby
-[`IPAddr`](http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.1.1/libdoc/ipaddr/rdoc/IPAddr.html)
-objects. The `macaddr` type is mapped to normal text.
-
-```ruby
-# db/migrate/20140508144913_create_devices.rb
-create_table(:devices, force: true) do |t|
-  t.inet 'ip'
-  t.cidr 'network'
-  t.macaddr 'address'
-end
-
-# app/models/device.rb
-class Device < ActiveRecord::Base
-end
-
-# Usage
-macbook = Device.create(ip: "192.168.1.12",
-                        network: "192.168.2.0/24",
-                        address: "32:01:16:6d:05:ef")
-
-macbook.ip
-# => #<IPAddr: IPv4:192.168.1.12/255.255.255.255>
-
-macbook.network
-# => #<IPAddr: IPv4:192.168.2.0/255.255.255.0>
-
-macbook.address
-# => "32:01:16:6d:05:ef"
-```
-
-### Geometric Types
-
-* [type definition](http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/datatype-geometric.html)
-
-All geometric types, with the exception of `points` are mapped to normal text.
-A point is casted to an array containing `x` and `y` coordinates.
-
-
-UUID Primary Keys
------------------
-
-NOTE: you need to enable the `uuid-ossp` extension to generate UUIDs.
-
-```ruby
-# db/migrate/20131220144913_create_devices.rb
-enable_extension 'uuid-ossp' unless extension_enabled?('uuid-ossp')
-create_table :devices, id: :uuid, default: 'uuid_generate_v4()' do |t|
-  t.string :kind
-end
-
-# app/models/device.rb
-class Device < ActiveRecord::Base
-end
-
-# Usage
-device = Device.create
-device.id # => "814865cd-5a1d-4771-9306-4268f188fe9e"
-```
-
-Full Text Search
-----------------
-
-```ruby
-# db/migrate/20131220144913_create_documents.rb
-create_table :documents do |t|
-  t.string 'title'
-  t.string 'body'
-end
-
-execute "CREATE INDEX documents_idx ON documents USING gin(to_tsvector('english', title || ' ' || body));"
-
-# app/models/document.rb
-class Document < ActiveRecord::Base
-end
-
-# Usage
-Document.create(title: "Cats and Dogs", body: "are nice!")
-
-## all documents matching 'cat & dog'
-Document.where("to_tsvector('english', title || ' ' || body) @@ to_tsquery(?)",
-                 "cat & dog")
-```
-
-Database Views
---------------
-
-* [view creation](http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/sql-createview.html)
-
-Imagine you need to work with a legacy database containing the following table:
-
-```
-rails_pg_guide=# \d "TBL_ART"
-                                        Table "public.TBL_ART"
-   Column   |            Type             |                         Modifiers
-------------+-----------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------
- INT_ID     | integer                     | not null default nextval('"TBL_ART_INT_ID_seq"'::regclass)
- STR_TITLE  | character varying           |
- STR_STAT   | character varying           | default 'draft'::character varying
- DT_PUBL_AT | timestamp without time zone |
- BL_ARCH    | boolean                     | default false
-Indexes:
-    "TBL_ART_pkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree ("INT_ID")
-```
-
-This table does not follow the Rails conventions at all.
-Because simple PostgreSQL views are updateable by default,
-we can wrap it as follows:
-
-```ruby
-# db/migrate/20131220144913_create_articles_view.rb
-execute <<-SQL
-CREATE VIEW articles AS
-  SELECT "INT_ID" AS id,
-         "STR_TITLE" AS title,
-         "STR_STAT" AS status,
-         "DT_PUBL_AT" AS published_at,
-         "BL_ARCH" AS archived
-  FROM "TBL_ART"
-  WHERE "BL_ARCH" = 'f'
-  SQL
-
-# app/models/article.rb
-class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
-  self.primary_key = "id"
-  def archive!
-    update_attribute :archived, true
-  end
-end
-
-# Usage
-first = Article.create! title: "Winter is coming",
-                        status: "published",
-                        published_at: 1.year.ago
-second = Article.create! title: "Brace yourself",
-                         status: "draft",
-                         published_at: 1.month.ago
-
-Article.count # => 1
-first.archive!
-Article.count # => 2
-```
-
-NOTE: This application only cares about non-archived `Articles`. A view also
-allows for conditions so we can exclude the archived `Articles` directly.