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🐘 Use PostgreSQL databases with PGO
https://github.com/gleam-experiments/pgo

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# Gleam PGO



A PostgreSQL database client for Gleam, based on [PGO][erlang-pgo].



[erlang-pgo]: https://github.com/erleans/pgo



```gleam

import gleam/pgo

import gleam/dynamic

import gleeunit/should



pub fn main() {

  // Start a database connection pool.

  // Typically you will want to create one pool for use in your program

  let db = pgo.connect(pgo.Config(

    ..pgo.default_config(),

    host: "localhost",

    database: "my_database",

    pool_size: 15,

  ))



  // An SQL statement to run. It takes one int as a parameter

  let sql = "

  select

    name, age, colour, friends

  from

    cats

  where

    id = $1"



  // This is the decoder for the value returned by the query

  let return_type = dynamic.tuple4(

    dynamic.string,

    dynamic.int,

    dynamic.string,

    dynamic.list(dynamic.string),

  )



  // Run the query against the PostgreSQL database

  // The int `1` is given as a parameter

  let assert Ok(response) =

    pgo.execute(sql, db, [pgo.int(1)], return_type)



  // And then do something with the returned results

  response.count

  |> should.equal(2)

  response.rows

  |> should.equal([

    #("Nubi", 3, "black", ["Al", "Cutlass"]),

  ])

}

```



## Installation



```sh

gleam add gleam_pgo

```



## Support of connection URI



Configuring a Postgres connection is done by using `Config` type in `gleam/pgo`.

To facilitate connection, and to provide easy integration with the rest of the

Postgres ecosystem, `gleam_pgo` provides handling of

[connection URI as defined by Postgres](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/libpq-connect.html#LIBPQ-CONNSTRING-URIS).

Shape of connection URI is `postgresql://[username:password@][host:port][/dbname][?query]`.

Call `gleam/pgo.url_config` with your connection URI, and in case it's correct

against the Postgres standard, your `Config` will be automatically generated!



Here's an example, using [`envoy`](https://github.com/lpil/envoy) to read the

connection URI from the environment.



```gleam

import envoy

import gleam/pgo



/// Read the DATABASE_URL environment variable.

/// Generate the pgo.Config from that database URL.

/// Finally, connect to database.

pub fn read_connection_uri() -> Result(pgo.Connection, Nil) {

  use database_url <- result.try(envoy.get("DATABASE_URL"))

  use config <- result.try(pgo.url_config(database_url))

  Ok(pgo.connect(config))

}

```



## About JSON



In Postgres, you can define a type `json` or `jsonb`. Such a type can be query

in SQL, but Postgres returns it a simple string, and accepts it as a simple string!

When writing or reading a JSON, you can simply use

`pgo.text(json.to_string(my_json))` and `dynamic.string` to respectively write

and read them!



## Rows as maps



By default, `pgo` will return every selected value from your query as a tuple.

In case you want a different output, you can activate `rows_as_maps` in `Config`.

Once activated, every returned rows will take the form of a `Dict`.



## Atom generation



Creating a connection pool with the `pgo.connect` function dynamically generates

an Erlang atom. Atoms are not garbage collected and only a certain number of

them can exist in an Erlang VM instance, and hitting this limit will result in

the VM crashing. Due to this limitation you should not dynamically open new

connection pools, instead create the pools you need when your application starts

and reuse them throughout the lifetime of your program.