postgres2.js

// Adapted from the documentation of https://github.com/brianc/node-postgres,
// which is licensed under the MIT license; see file node-postgres-LICENSE.
const pgPool = require('pg-pool');
 
// create a config to configure both pooling behavior 
// and client options 
// note: all config is optional and the environment variables 
// will be read if the config is not present 
var config = {
  user: 'foo', //env var: PGUSER 
  database: 'my_db', //env var: PGDATABASE 
  password: 'secret', //env var: PGPASSWORD 
  host: 'localhost', // Server hosting the postgres database 
  port: 5432, //env var: PGPORT 
  max: 10, // max number of clients in the pool 
  idleTimeoutMillis: 30000, // how long a client is allowed to remain idle before being closed 
};
 
//this initializes a connection pool 
//it will keep idle connections open for 30 seconds 
//and set a limit of maximum 10 idle clients 
const pool = new pgPool(config);
 
pool.connect(function(err, client, done) {
  if(err) {
    return console.error('error fetching client from pool', err);
  }
  
  //use the client for executing the query 
  client.query('SELECT $1::int AS number', ['1'], function(err, result) {
    //call `done(err)` to release the client back to the pool (or destroy it if there is an error) 
    done(err);
 
    if(err) {
      return console.error('error running query', err);
    }
    console.log(result.rows[0].number);
    //output: 1 
  });
});