pg-async

Tiny but powerful Promise based PostgreSQL client for node.js designed for easy use with ES7 async/await.
Based on node-postgres (known as pg in npm registry). Can use pg or native pg-native backend.

Example

import PgAsync, {SQL} from 'pg-async';

// using default connection
const pgAsync = new PgAsync();

const userTable = 'user';
const sqlUserByLogin = (login) => SQL`
  select id
  from $ID${userTable}
  where login = ${login}
`;

async function setPassword(login, newPwd) {
  const userId = await pgAsync.value(sqlUserByLogin(login));
  // userId is guaranted here,
  // pgAsync.value requires query yielding exactly one row with one column.
  await pgAsync.query(SQL`
    update $ID${userTable} set
      passwd = ${newPwd}
    where userId = ${userId}
  `);
}

Install

$ npm install --save pg-async

API

Configuring Connection Options

new PgAsync([connectionOptions], [driver])

• The default export of pg-async is PgAsync class which let you configure connection options
• Connection options defaults to pg.defaults
• Optional driver let you choose underlying library
• To use the native bindings you must npm install --save pg-native

import PgAsync from 'pg-async';

// using default connection
const pgAsync = new PgAsync();

// using connection string
const pgAsync = new PgAsync({connectionString: 'postgres://user:[email protected]:port/database'});

// using connection object
const pgAsync = new PgAsync({user, password, host, port, database, ...});

// using default for current user, with native driver
// install pg-native package manually
const pgAsync = new PgAsync(null, 'native');
const pgAsync = new PgAsync(null, require('pg').native);

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await pgAsync.query(SQL`...`) -> pg.Result

await pgAsync.query(sql, values...) -> pg.Result

await pgAsync.queryArgs(sql, [values]) -> pg.Result

• Execute SQL and return Result object from underlying pg library
• Interesting properties on Result object are:
  • rowCount Number ­– returned rows
  • oid Number ­– Postgres oid
  • rows Array ­– Actual result of pgAsync.rows()
  • rowAsArray Boolean
  • fields Array of:
    • name String ­– name or alias of column
    • tableID Number ­– oid of table or 0
    • columnID Number ­– index of column in table or 0
    • dataTypeID Number ­– oid of data type
    • dataTypeSize Number ­– size in bytes od colum, -1 for variable length
    • ­dataTypeModifier Number

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await pgAsync.rows(SQL`...`) -> array of objects

await pgAsync.rows(sql, values...) -> array of objects

await pgAsync.rowsArgs(sql, [values]) -> array of objects

• Execute SQL and return array of key/value objects (result.rows)

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await pgAsync.row(SQL`...`) -> object

await pgAsync.row(sql, values...) -> object

await pgAsync.rowArgs(sql, [values]) -> object

• Execute SQL and return single key/value object. If query yields more than one or none rows, promise will be rejected.
• Rejected promise throw exception at await location.

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await pgAsync.value(SQL`...`) -> any

await pgAsync.value(sql, values...) -> any

await pgAsync.valueArgs(sql, [values]) -> any

• Same as row, but query must yields single column in single row, otherwise throws.

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await pgAsync.connect(async (client) => innerResult) -> innerResult

• Execute multiple queries in sequence on same connection. This is handy for transactions.
• asyncFunc here has signature async (client, pgClient) => { ... }
• provided client has async methods:
  • query, rows, row, value as above
  • queryArgs, rowsArgs, rowArgs, valueArgs as above
  • startTransaction, commit, rollback - start new transaction manually. Use pgAsync.transaction when possible
• client itself is shorthand for query

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await pgAsync.transaction(async (client) => innerResult) -> innerResult

Transaction is similar to connect but automatically start and commit transaction, rollback on throwen error Example:

const pgAsync = new PgAsync();

function moveMoney(fromAccount, toAccount, amount) {
  return pgAsync.transaction(async (client) => {
    let movementFrom, movementTo, movementId;
    const sql = `
      INSERT INTO bank_account (account, amount)
      VALUES ($1, $2)
      RETURNING id
    `;
    movementFrom = await client.value(sql, [fromAccount, -amount]);
    movementTo = await client.value(sql, [toAccount, amount]);
    return {movementFrom, movementTo}
  });
}

async function doTheWork() {
  // ...
  try {
    const result = await moveMoney('alice', 'bob', 19.95);
    // transaction is commited
  } catch (err) {
    // transaction is rollbacked
  }
  // ...
}

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await pgAsync.getClient([connectionOptions]) -> {client, done}

• Get unwrapped pg.Client callback based instance.
  You should not call this method unless you know what are you doing.
• Client must be returned to pool manually by calling done()

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pgAsync.closeConnections()

• Disconnects all idle clients within all active pools, and has all client pools terminate. See pool.end()
• This actually terminates all connections on driver used by Pg instance

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Features

• [x] pg driver support
• [x] pg.native driver support
• [x] debug — Enable debugging with DEBUG="pg-async" environment variable
• [x] Transaction API wrapper - Postgres does not support nested transactions
• [x] Template tag SQL formatting
• [ ] Transaction SAVEPOINT support
• [ ] Cursor API wrapper

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License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2016 Pavel Lang ([email protected])

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