Working with Postgres

Create tables in a Postgres database

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Use the postgres crate to create tables in a Postgres database.

Client::connect helps in connecting to an existing database. The recipe uses a URL string format with Client::connect. It assumes an existing database named library, the username is postgres and the password is postgres.

use postgres::{Client, NoTls, Error};

fn main() -> Result<(), Error> {
    let mut client = Client::connect("postgresql://postgres:postgres@localhost/library", NoTls)?;
    
    client.batch_execute("
        CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS author (
            id              SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
            name            VARCHAR NOT NULL,
            country         VARCHAR NOT NULL
            )
    ")?;

    client.batch_execute("
        CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS book  (
            id              SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
            title           VARCHAR NOT NULL,
            author_id       INTEGER NOT NULL REFERENCES author
            )
    ")?;

    Ok(())

}

Insert and Query data

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The recipe inserts data into the author table using execute method of Client. Then, displays the data from the author table using query method of Client.

use postgres::{Client, NoTls, Error};
use std::collections::HashMap;

struct Author {
    _id: i32,
    name: String,
    country: String
}

fn main() -> Result<(), Error> {
    let mut client = Client::connect("postgresql://postgres:postgres@localhost/library", 
                                    NoTls)?;
    
    let mut authors = HashMap::new();
    authors.insert(String::from("Chinua Achebe"), "Nigeria");
    authors.insert(String::from("Rabindranath Tagore"), "India");
    authors.insert(String::from("Anita Nair"), "India");

    for (key, value) in &authors {
        let author = Author {
            _id: 0,
            name: key.to_string(),
            country: value.to_string()
        };

        client.execute(
                "INSERT INTO author (name, country) VALUES ($1, $2)",
                &[&author.name, &author.country],
        )?;
    }

    for row in client.query("SELECT id, name, country FROM author", &[])? {
        let author = Author {
            _id: row.get(0),
            name: row.get(1),
            country: row.get(2),
        };
        println!("Author {} is from {}", author.name, author.country);
    }

    Ok(())

}

Aggregate data

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This recipe lists the nationalities of the first 7999 artists in the database of the Museum of Modern Art in descending order.

use postgres::{Client, Error, NoTls};

struct Nation {
    nationality: String,
    count: i64,
}

fn main() -> Result<(), Error> {
    let mut client = Client::connect(
        "postgresql://postgres:postgres@127.0.0.1/moma",
        NoTls,
    )?;

    for row in client.query 
	("SELECT nationality, COUNT(nationality) AS count 
	FROM artists GROUP BY nationality ORDER BY count DESC", &[])? {
        
        let (nationality, count) : (Option<String>, Option<i64>) 
		= (row.get (0), row.get (1));
        
        if nationality.is_some () && count.is_some () {

            let nation = Nation{
                nationality: nationality.unwrap(),
                count: count.unwrap(),
        };
            println!("{} {}", nation.nationality, nation.count);
            
        }
    }

    Ok(())
}