symfony2 + doctrine2@postgresql setting a schema

Question

I want to use symfony2+doctrine2 for a new project. I ran into a little issue with postgresql-schemes. In contrast to mysql you can specify in postgres (like other databases) different schemes. Our productiv database has around 200 schemes for example.

I have to set a schema for my current doctrine connection. How can I do that?

I solved this issue a few months ago in another project, that uses doctrine2 only. I did the following:

$em = Doctrine\ORM\EntityManager::create($connectionOptions, $config);
$em->getConnection()->exec('SET SEARCH_PATH TO foobar');

But I dont know where I should do that in symfony2?

Answer 1

you could try to implement and use your own driver_class and pass the search_path in the PDO DriverOptions, e.g. in your symfony config:

# Doctrine Configuration
doctrine:
    dbal:
        driver:   pdo_pgsql
        driver_class: YourNamespace\YourBundle\Doctrine\DBAL\Driver\PDOPgSql\Driver
        options:
            search_path: YOUR_SEARCH_PATH

The driver could look something like this:

namespace YourNamespace\YourBundle\Doctrine\DBAL\Driver\PDOPgSql;

use Doctrine\DBAL\Platforms;

class Driver extends \Doctrine\DBAL\Driver\PDOPgSql\Driver implements \Doctrine\DBAL\Driver
{
    public function connect(array $params, $username = null, $password = null, array $driverOptions = array())
    {
        // ADD SOME ERROR HANDLING WHEN THE SEARCH_PATH IS MISSING...
        $searchPath = $driverOptions['search_path'];
        unset($driverOptions['search_path']);

        $connection = new \Doctrine\DBAL\Driver\PDOConnection(
            $this->_constructPdoDsn($params),
            $username,
            $password,
            $driverOptions
        );

        $connection->exec("SET SEARCH_PATH TO {$searchPath};");

        return $connection;
    }

    /**
     * Constructs the Postgres PDO DSN.
     *
     * @return string The DSN.
     */
    protected function _constructPdoDsn(array $params)
    {
        $dsn = 'pgsql:';
        if (isset($params['host']) && $params['host'] != '') {
            $dsn .= 'host=' . $params['host'] . ' ';
        }
        if (isset($params['port']) && $params['port'] != '') {
            $dsn .= 'port=' . $params['port'] . ' ';
        }
        if (isset($params['dbname'])) {
            $dsn .= 'dbname=' . $params['dbname'] . ' ';
        }

        return $dsn;
    }
}

You need the _constructPdoDsn method because it isn't defined as protected in \Doctrine\DBAL\Driver\PDOPgSql\Driver. It's bit "hacky" because we are using PDO DriverOptions and i'm not sure if that's a good way - but it seems to work.

Hope this helps.

Best regards,

Patryk