postgresql-easy

This is a Node module that makes it very simple to interact with PostgreSQL databases. It has the same API as https://github.com/mvolkmann/mysql-easier.

To install this, run npm install -S postgresql-easy

Setup

const PgConnection = require('postgresql-easy');
const pg = new PgConnection(config);

Demo

To run the demo code, follow these steps:

1. Start database daemon with pg_ctl -D /usr/local/var/postgres start
2. Create the demo database with createdb demo
3. Start interactive mode with psql -d demo
4. Create a table with create table demo_user ( id serial primary key, username text, password text );
5. Exit interactive mode with ctrl-d.
6. Run the demo with npm run demo

API

The config object can contain these properties:

• database: the name of the database to use
• debug: true to output messages describing each action; defaults to false
• host: defaults to localhost
• idleTimeoutMillis: time before connection is closed; default is 30000
• max: maximum number of clients in pool; default is 10
• password: if database requires authentication
• port: defaults to 5432
• user: if database requires authentication

The only one of these that is always required is "database".

PgConnection objects provide seven methods. All but disconnect return a promise. One way to use the returned promise is to chain calls to then and catch. Another is to use async and await.

deleteAll

This deletes all records from a given table.

try {
  await pg.deleteAll('flavors');
  // Do something after successful delete.
} catch (e) {
  // Handle the error.
}

deleteById

This deletes a record from a given table by id. It requires the table to have a column named "id".

try {
  await pg.delete('flavors', 7);
  // Do something after successful delete.
} catch (e) {
  // Handle the error.
}

disconnect

This disconnects from the database.

pg.disconnect();

getAll

This gets all records from a given table.

try {
  const result = await pg.getAll('flavors');
  // Process data in the array result.
} catch (e) {
  // Handle the error.
}

getById

This gets a record from a given table by id. It requires the table to have a column named "id".

try {
  const result = await pg.getById('flavors', 7);
  // Process data in the array result.
} catch (e) {
  // Handle the error.
}

insert

This inserts a record into a given table and returns the id of the new record. The keys of obj are column names and their values are the values to insert.

try {
  const result = pg.insert('flavors', {name: 'vanilla', calories: 100});
  // Do something after successful insert.
  // result will be the id of the newly inserted row.
} catch (e) {
  // Handle the error.
}

query

This executes a SQL query. It is the most general purpose function provided. It is used by several of the other functions.

const sql = 'select name from flavors where calories < 150';
try {
  const result = await pg.query(sql);
  // Do something with the result set in result.
} catch (e) {
  // Handle the error.
}

const sql = 'select name from flavors where calories < $1 and cost < $2';
try {
  const result = await pg.query(sql, 200, 3);
  // Do something with the result set in result.
} catch (e) {
  // Handle the error.
}

updateById

This updates a record in a given table by id. It requires the table to have a column named "id".

try {
  const result = pg.updateById(
    'flavors', 7, {name: 'chocolate', calories: 200});
  // Do something with the result set in result.
  // result will be an object describing the updated row.
} catch (e) {
  // Handle the error.
}