Comment by kristiandupont
8 days ago
Very nice! I am the author of Kanel* which generates types for each table, view, etc. I tend to use it together with Knex which gives me strong type safety from simple selects and updates and sporadic type safety from complex queries with joins etc.
The advantage to your approach (I guess) is increased type safety for complex queries, trading off the loss of "fundamental" types with, say, branded ID types? I guess the two approaches are quite complementary, perhaps I should try that.
Kanel is great! That's what I used before pg-typesafe, and I still use it for dynamic queries.
Regarding the nominal/branded types, the typegen is configurable, so instead of e.g. mapping oid 20 to a bigint, you could map the field id of table foo to Foo["id"] from kanel.
see this example https://github.com/n-e/pg-typesafe?tab=readme-ov-file#type-j...
Very cool! I'll try it out!