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•  package skunk

  Skunk is a functional data access layer for Postgres.

  Skunk is a functional data access layer for Postgres.

  Design principles:

  • Skunk doesn't use JDBC. It speaks the Postgres wire protocol. It will not work with any other database back end.
  • Skunk is asynchronous all the way down, via cats-effect, fs2, and ultimately nio. The high-level network layers (Protocol and Session) are safe to use concurrently.
  • Serialization to and from schema types is not typeclass-based, so there are no implicit derivations. Codecs are explicit, like parser combinators.
  • I'm not sweating arity abstraction that much. Pass a ~ b ~ c for three args and Void if there are no args. This may change in the future but it's fine for now.
  • Skunk uses Resource for lifetime-managed objects, which means it takes some discipline to avoid leaks, especially when working concurrently. May or may not end up being problematic.
  • I'm trying to write good Scaladoc this time.

  A minimal example follows. We construct a Resource that yields a Session, then use it.

  package example
  
  import cats.effect._
  import skunk._
  import skunk.implicits._
  import skunk.codec.numeric._
  
  object Minimal extends IOApp {
  
    val session: Resource[IO, Session[IO]] =
      Session.single(
        host     = "localhost",
        port     = 5432,
        user     = "postgres",
        database = "world",
      )
  
    def run(args: List[String]): IO[ExitCode] =
      session.use { s =>
        for {
          n <- s.unique(sql"select 42".query(int4))
          _ <- IO(println(s"The answer is $n."))
        } yield ExitCode.Success
      }
  
  }

  Continue reading for an overview of the library. It's pretty small.

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•  package codec

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• AllCodecs
• BinaryCodecs
• BooleanCodec
• EnumCodec
• EnumCodecPlatform
• NumericCodecs
• TemporalCodecs
• TextCodecs
• UuidCodec
• all
• binary
• boolean
• enum
• numeric
• temporal
• text
• uuid
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•  package net

  Skunk network stack, starting with BitVectorSocket at the bottom and ending with Protocol at the top (Session delegates all its work to Protocol).

  Skunk network stack, starting with BitVectorSocket at the bottom and ending with Protocol at the top (Session delegates all its work to Protocol). Everything is non-blocking.

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