purescript-postgresql-client/README.md

# purescript-postgresql-client

purescript-postgresql-client is a PostgreSQL client library for PureScript.

## Install

To use this library, you need to add [`pg`][pg] and [`decimal.js`][decimal.js] as an npm dependency. You can also
find first of them on [https://github.com/brianc/node-postgres](https://github.com/brianc/node-postgres).

## Usage

This guide is a literate Purescript file which is extracted into testing module (using [`literate-purescript`](https://github.com/Thimoteus/literate-purescript)) so it is a little verbose.

Let's start with imports.

```purescript
module Test.README where

import Prelude

import Database.PostgreSQL (defaultPoolConfiguration, command, execute, newPool, PG, query, Query(Query), withConnection, withTransaction)
import Database.PostgreSQL.Row (Row0(Row0), Row3(Row3))
import Data.Decimal as Decimal
import Data.Maybe (Maybe(..))
import Data.Tuple.Nested ((/\))
import Effect.Class (liftEffect)
import Test.Assert (assert)
```

The whole API for interaction with postgres is performed asynchronously in `Aff`. To be honest
it is `type PG a = ExceptT PGError Aff a` so you can easily catch database related errors in
a sane (read typed) manner. The only function which is done in plain `Effect` is `newPool`.

Don't be scarred you can turn `PG a` into `Aff (Either PGError a)` just running single function
`runExceptT`.

We assume here that postgres is running on a standard local port
with `ident` authentication so configuration can be nearly empty (`defaultPoolConfiguration`).
It requires only database name which we pass to `newPool` function.
We setup also `idleTimeoutMillis` value because this code
is run by our test suite and we want to exit after execution quickly ;-)


```purescript
run ∷ PG Unit
run = do

  pool <- liftEffect $ newPool ((defaultPoolConfiguration "purspg") { idleTimeoutMillis = Just 1000 })
  withConnection pool \conn -> do
```

We can now create our temporary table which we are going to query in this example.
`execute` ignores result value which is what we want in this case.
The last `Row0` value indicates that this `Query` doesn't take any additional parameters.

```purescript

    execute conn (Query """
      CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE fruits (
        name text NOT NULL,
        delicious boolean NOT NULL,
        price NUMERIC(4,2) NOT NULL,
        added TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
        PRIMARY KEY (name)
      );
    """) Row0
```

There is `withTransaction` helper provided. You can wrap the whole
piece of interaction with database in it. It will rollback if any exception
is thrown during execution of a given `Aff` block. It excecutes `COMMIT`
in the other case.
We start our session with insert of some data. It is done by `execute`
function with `INSERT` statement.
Please notice that we are passing a tuple of the arguments to this query
using dedicated constructor. In this case `Row3`.  This library provides types
from `Row0` to `Row19` and they are wrappers which provide instances for
automatic conversions from and to SQL values.
For details please check following classes `ToSQLRow`, `ToSQLValue`,
`FromSQLRow` and `FromSQLValue`.

```purescript
    withTransaction conn $ do
      execute conn (Query """
        INSERT INTO fruits (name, delicious, price)
        VALUES ($1, $2, $3)
      """) (Row3 "coconut" true (Decimal.fromString "8.30"))
```

We can also use nested tuples instead of `Row*` constructors. This can be a bit more
verbose but is not restricted to limited and constant number of arguments.
`/\` is just an alias for the `Tuple` constructor from `Data.Tuple.Nested`.

```purescript
      execute conn (Query """
        INSERT INTO fruits (name, delicious, price)
        VALUES ($1, $2, $3)
      """) ("lemon" /\ false /\ Decimal.fromString "3.30")
```

Of course `Row*` types and nested tuples can be also used when we are fetching
data from db.
`query` function processes db response and returns an `Array` of rows.

```purescript
      names <- query conn (Query """
        SELECT name, delicious
        FROM fruits
        ORDER BY name ASC
      """) Row0
      liftEffect <<< assert $ names == ["coconut" /\ true, "lemon" /\ false]
```

There is also a `command` function at our disposal.
Some postgres SQL expressions return a "command tag" which carries
a value with a number of rows which were affected by a given query.
For example we can have: `DELETE rows`, `UPDATE rows`, `INSERT oid rows` etc.
This function should return `rows` value associated with given response.

```purescript
      deleted <- command conn (Query """DELETE FROM fruits """) Row0
      liftEffect <<< assert $ deleted == 2
```

## Testing

Currently tests are prepared to work with default and local setup for postgresql (ident authentication, standart port etc.).
If you think that we should add configuration layer for our test runner please open an issue.

To run suite please:

  * `$ npm install`

  * `$ createdb purspg`

  * `$ npm run test`


## Generating SQL Queries

The purspgpp preprocessor has been replaced by [sqltopurs], which is a code
generator instead of a preprocessor, and easier to use.

[sqltopurs]: https://github.com/rightfold/sqltopurs
[pg]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/pg
[decimal.js]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/decimal.js