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PostgREST serves a fully RESTful API from any existing PostgreSQL
database. It provides a cleaner, more standards-compliant, faster
API than you are likely to write from scratch.
### Demo [postgrest.herokuapp.com](https://postgrest.herokuapp.com) | Read [Docs](http://postgrest.com/) | Watch [Video](http://begriffs.com/posts/2014-12-30-intro-to-postgrest.html)
Try making requests to the live demo server with an HTTP client
such as [postman](http://www.getpostman.com/). The structure of the
demo database is defined by
Try making requests to the live [demo
server](https://postgrest.herokuapp.com) with an HTTP client such
as [postman](http://www.getpostman.com/). The structure of the demo
database is defined by
[begriffs/postgrest-example](https://github.com/begriffs/postgrest-example).
You can use it as inspiration for test-driven server migrations in
your own projects.
Also try other tools in the PostgREST
[ecosystem](http://postgrest.com/install/ecosystem/) like the
[ng-admin demo](http://marmelab.com/ng-admin-postgrest).
[ecosystem](http://postgrest.com/en/stable/intro.html#ecosystem).
### Usage
1. Download the binary ([latest release](https://github.com/begriffs/postgrest/releases/latest))
for your platform.
2. Invoke like so:
2. Invoke for help:
```bash
postgrest postgres://postgres:foobar@localhost:5432/my_db \
--port 3000 \
--schema public \
--anonymous postgres \
--pool 200
postgrest --help
```
For more information on valid connection strings see the
[PostgreSQL docs](http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/libpq-connect.html#LIBPQ-CONNSTRING).
### Performance
TLDR; subsecond response times for up to 2000 requests/sec on Heroku
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[Hasql](https://nikita-volkov.github.io/hasql-benchmarks/) library
by
* Reusing prepared statements
* Keeping a pool of db connections
* Using the PostgreSQL binary protocol
* Being stateless to allow horizontal scaling
@@ -78,8 +67,6 @@ Ultimately the server (when load balanced) is constrained by database
performance. This may make it inappropriate for very large traffic
load. To learn more about scaling with Heroku and Amazon RDS see
the [performance guide](http://postgrest.com/admin/performance/).
Alternatively [CitusDB](https://www.citusdata.com/products/what-is-citusdb)
supports Postgres clustering for higher performance.
Other optimizations are possible, and some are outlined in the
[Future Features](#future-features).
@@ -105,35 +92,26 @@ are limited to certain templates using
functions, the trigger workaround does not compromise row-level
security.
For example security patterns see the [security
guide](http://postgrest.com/admin/security/).
### Versioning
A robust long-lived API needs the freedom to exist in multiple
versions. PostgREST does versioning through database schemas. This
allows you to expose tables and views without making the app brittle.
Underlying tables can be superseded and hidden behind public facing
views. You run an instance of PostgREST per schema and route requests
among them with a reverse proxy such as [nginx](http://nginx.org).
Learn more [here](http://postgrest.com/admin/versioning/).
views.
### Self-documentation
Rather than writing and maintaining separate docs yourself let the
API explain its own affordances using HTTP. All PostgREST endpoints
respond to the OPTIONS verb and explain what they support as well
as the data format of their JSON payload. RAML support is an upcoming
feature.
PostgREST uses the [OpenAPI](https://openapis.org/) standard to
generate up-to-date documentation for APIs. You can use a tool like
[Swagger-UI](https://github.com/swagger-api/swagger-ui) to render
interactive documentation for demo requests against the live API server.
The project uses HTTP itself to communicate other metadata. For
instance the number of rows returned by an endpoint is reported by -
and limited with - range headers. More about
This project uses HTTP to communicate other metadata as well. For
instance the number of rows returned by an endpoint is reported by
- and limited with - range headers. More about
[that](http://begriffs.com/posts/2014-03-06-beyond-http-header-links.html).
There are more opportunities for self-documentation listed in [Future
Features](#future-features).
### Data Integrity
Rather than relying on an Object Relational Mapper and custom
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constraints](http://www.tutorialspoint.com/postgresql/postgresql_constraints.htm)
and the [guide to routing](http://postgrest.com/api/reading/).
### Future Features
* Watching endpoint changes with sockets and Postgres pubsub
* Specifying per-view HTTP caching
* Inferring good default caching policies from the Postgres stats collector
* Generating mock data for test clients
* Maintaining separate connection pools per role to avoid "set/reset
role" performance penalty
* Describe more relationships with Link headers
* Depending on accept headers, render OPTIONS as [RAML](http://raml.org/) or a
relational diagram
* ... the other [issues](https://github.com/begriffs/postgrest/issues)
### Thanks
I'm grateful to the generous project