On Sat, 18 Jan 2020, 05:54 Nikolay Samokhvalov, <samokhva...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is a very common task, definitely. > > As for WebSockets, there is an addition to PostgREST, postgrest-websockets > https://github.com/diogob/postgres-websockets#readme > Yep, but as it's addition, it's not first class citizen and requires extra steps to install it. While this is possible it's not user friendly. I would like to fix this :-) > PostgREST is not only for "give me contents", you can write functions (in > any PL) and call them using POST /rpc/functionname. > This is what I want to emphasize on at first: calling functions, written in any PL via JSON-RPC. There's also plans to execute any named queries conveniently stored in text files, for example, foo.sql might contains: -- @id my-query1 select :name::text -- @id my-query2 select :age::integer And then the caller can call these queries by ID, providing the parameter values as simple as regular RPC call. > There is also an attempt to build similar tool in Go (although I'm not > sure how popular and powerful it is): pREST https://github.com/prest/prest > > Finally, there is a whole line of trendy and quite popular tools for > having GraphQL on top of Postgres, including but not limited to: > - PostGraphile https://github.com/graphile/postgraphile > - Hasura https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine > - Prisma https://github.com/prisma/prisma > Thanks for the links! > On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 13:18 Dmitry Igrishin <dmit...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello! >> >> Who needs to talk to Postgres right from a WEB-browser via WebSockets? >> For example, conveniently call storable functions/procedures? >> >> Yes, i know about PostgREST. But I want to focus on RPC via WebSockets >> without all these REST or "give me contents of that table by this URL" >> stuff... >> >> I'm thinking about writing an application which is simple to >> install/deploy, simple to configure, with a connection pool built-in. >> Ideally, one binary and one config in JSON format. >> >> I need some feedback before start. So please don't hesitate to share any >> of your thoughts/ideas/comments/scepticism here :-) >> >> Thanks. >> >>
