There is a lot below that’s been accumulating historically. But if you are using Node.js v10.4.0 or later, you can skip all this, and jump into section UPDATE-2 at the bottom. This is indeed the standard behavior. bigint is 64-bit, and all 64-bit integers are returned by the underlying node-postgres driver as type string, while … Read more
1.a What Preset is needed? You will need to install Babel firstly with npm install babel-core –save-dev in the root directory of your project using a Terminal window like Command Prompt. Once installed, you will need to install the es2015 preset with npm install babel-preset-es2015 –save-dev. Babel-Core is Promises/A+ Compliant but not ideal for usage … Read more
I am the author of pg-promise 😉 And this isn’t the first time this question is asked, so I’m giving it a detailed explanation here. When you instantiate a new database object like this: const db = pgp(connection); …all it does – creates the object, but it does not try to connect. The library is … Read more
I’m the author of pg-promise. In older versions of the library this was covered by simplified examples within the Performance Boost article, which is still a good read when writing high-performance database applications. The newer approach is to rely on the helpers namespace, which is ultimately flexible, and optimised for performance. const pgp = require(‘pg-promise’)({ … Read more