Support for PostgreSQL's ltree data type.

activerecord/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 ## Rails 4.0.0 (unreleased) ##
 
+*   Support for PostgreSQL's ltree data type.
+
+    *Rob Worley*
+
 *   Fix undefined method `to_i` when calling `new` on a scope that uses an Array.
     Fixes #8718, #8734.
 

activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/postgresql/oid.rb

@@ -276,6 +276,7 @@ def self.registered_type?(name)
         register_type 'circle', OID::Identity.new
         register_type 'hstore', OID::Hstore.new
         register_type 'json', OID::Json.new
+        register_type 'ltree', OID::Identity.new
 
         register_type 'int4range', OID::IntRange.new
         alias_type 'int8range', 'int4range'

activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/postgresql_adapter.rb

@@ -173,6 +173,8 @@ def simplified_type(field_type)
             :decimal
           when 'hstore'
             :hstore
+          when 'ltree'
+            :ltree
           # Network address types
           when 'inet'
             :inet
@@ -275,6 +277,10 @@ def hstore(name, options = {})
           column(name, 'hstore', options)
         end
 
+        def ltree(name, options = {})
+          column(name, 'ltree', options)
+        end
+
         def inet(name, options = {})
           column(name, 'inet', options)
         end
@@ -340,7 +346,8 @@ def new_column_definition(base, name, type)
         macaddr:     { name: "macaddr" },
         uuid:        { name: "uuid" },
         json:        { name: "json" },
-        intrange:    { name: "int4range" }
+        intrange:    { name: "int4range" },
+        ltree:       { name: "ltree" }
       }
 
       include Quoting

activerecord/test/cases/adapters/postgresql/datatype_test.rb

@@ -30,6 +30,9 @@ class PostgresqlTimestampWithZone < ActiveRecord::Base
 class PostgresqlUUID < ActiveRecord::Base
 end
 
+class PostgresqlLtree < ActiveRecord::Base
+end
+
 class PostgresqlDataTypeTest < ActiveRecord::TestCase
   self.use_transactional_fixtures = false
 
@@ -97,7 +100,6 @@ def test_data_type_of_network_address_types
     assert_equal :inet, @first_network_address.column_for_attribute(:inet_address).type
     assert_equal :macaddr, @first_network_address.column_for_attribute(:mac_address).type
   end
-
   def test_data_type_of_bit_string_types
     assert_equal :string, @first_bit_string.column_for_attribute(:bit_string).type
     assert_equal :string, @first_bit_string.column_for_attribute(:bit_string_varying).type

activerecord/test/cases/adapters/postgresql/ltree_test.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+# encoding: utf-8
+
+require "cases/helper"
+require 'active_record/base'
+require 'active_record/connection_adapters/postgresql_adapter'
+
+class PostgresqlLtreeTest < ActiveRecord::TestCase
+  class Ltree < ActiveRecord::Base
+    self.table_name = 'ltrees'
+  end
+
+  def setup
+    @connection = ActiveRecord::Base.connection
+    begin
+      @connection.transaction do
+        @connection.create_table('ltrees') do |t|
+          t.ltree 'path'
+        end
+      end
+    rescue ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid
+      return skip "do not test on PG without ltree"
+    end
+    @column = Ltree.columns.find { |c| c.name == 'path' }
+  end
+
+  def teardown
+    @connection.execute 'drop table if exists ltrees'
+  end
+
+  def test_column
+    assert_equal :ltree, @column.type
+  end
+
+  def test_write
+    x = Ltree.new(:path => '1.2.3.4')
+    assert x.save!
+  end
+
+  def test_select
+    @connection.execute "insert into ltrees (path) VALUES ('1.2.3')"
+    x = Ltree.first
+    assert_equal('1.2.3', x.path)
+  end
+end

activerecord/test/cases/schema_dumper_test.rb

@@ -280,6 +280,13 @@ def test_schema_dump_includes_hstores_shorthand_definition
       end
     end
 
+    def test_schema_dump_includes_ltrees_shorthand_definition
+      output = standard_dump
+      if %r{create_table "postgresql_ltrees"} =~ output
+        assert_match %r[t.ltree "path"], output
+      end
+    end
+
     def test_schema_dump_includes_arrays_shorthand_definition
       output = standard_dump
       if %r{create_table "postgresql_arrays"} =~ output

activerecord/test/schema/postgresql_specific_schema.rb

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ActiveRecord::Schema.define do
 
-  %w(postgresql_tsvectors postgresql_hstores postgresql_arrays postgresql_moneys postgresql_numbers postgresql_times postgresql_network_addresses postgresql_bit_strings postgresql_uuids
+  %w(postgresql_tsvectors postgresql_hstores postgresql_arrays postgresql_moneys postgresql_numbers postgresql_times postgresql_network_addresses postgresql_bit_strings postgresql_uuids postgresql_ltrees
       postgresql_oids postgresql_xml_data_type defaults geometrics postgresql_timestamp_with_zones postgresql_partitioned_table postgresql_partitioned_table_parent postgresql_json_data_type postgresql_intrange_data_type).each do |table_name|
     execute "DROP TABLE IF EXISTS #{quote_table_name table_name}"
   end
@@ -89,6 +89,15 @@
 _SQL
   end
 
+  if 't' == select_value("select 'ltree'=ANY(select typname from pg_type)")
+  execute <<_SQL
+  CREATE TABLE postgresql_ltrees (
+    id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
+    path ltree
+  );
+_SQL
+  end
+
   if 't' == select_value("select 'json'=ANY(select typname from pg_type)")
   execute <<_SQL
   CREATE TABLE postgresql_json_data_type (