Crate postgres_types

Conversions to and from Postgres types.

This crate is used by the tokio-postgres and postgres crates. You normally don't need to depend directly on it unless you want to define your own ToSql or FromSql definitions.

Derive

If the derive cargo feature is enabled, you can derive ToSql and FromSql implementations for custom Postgres types.

Enums

Postgres enums correspond to C-like enums in Rust:

CREATE TYPE "Mood" AS ENUM (
    'Sad',
    'Ok',
    'Happy'
);

use postgres_types::{ToSql, FromSql};

#[derive(Debug, ToSql, FromSql)]
enum Mood {
    Sad,
    Ok,
    Happy,
}

Domains

Postgres domains correspond to tuple structs with one member in Rust:

CREATE DOMAIN "SessionId" AS BYTEA CHECK(octet_length(VALUE) = 16);

use postgres_types::{ToSql, FromSql};

#[derive(Debug, ToSql, FromSql)]
struct SessionId(Vec<u8>);

Composites

Postgres composite types correspond to structs in Rust:

CREATE TYPE "InventoryItem" AS (
    name TEXT,
    supplier_id INT,
    price DOUBLE PRECISION
);

use postgres_types::{ToSql, FromSql};

#[derive(Debug, ToSql, FromSql)]
struct InventoryItem {
    name: String,
    supplier_id: i32,
    price: Option<f64>,
}

Naming

The derived implementations will enforce exact matches of type, field, and variant names between the Rust and Postgres types. The #[postgres(name = "...")] attribute can be used to adjust the name on a type, variant, or field:

CREATE TYPE mood AS ENUM (
    'sad',
    'ok',
    'happy'
);

use postgres_types::{ToSql, FromSql};

#[derive(Debug, ToSql, FromSql)]
#[postgres(name = "mood")]
enum Mood {
    #[postgres(name = "sad")]
    Sad,
    #[postgres(name = "ok")]
    Ok,
    #[postgres(name = "happy")]
    Happy,
}

Macros

accepts	Generates a simple implementation of ToSql::accepts which accepts the types passed to it.
to_sql_checked	Generates an implementation of ToSql::to_sql_checked.

Structs

Field	Information about a field of a composite type.
Type	A Postgres type.
WasNull	An error indicating that a NULL Postgres value was passed to a FromSql implementation that does not support NULL values.
WrongType	An error indicating that a conversion was attempted between incompatible Rust and Postgres types.

Enums

Date	A wrapper that can be used to represent infinity with Type::Date types.
IsNull	An enum representing the nullability of a Postgres value.
Kind	Represents the kind of a Postgres type.
Timestamp	A wrapper that can be used to represent infinity with Type::Timestamp and Type::Timestamptz types.

Traits

FromSql	A trait for types that can be created from a Postgres value.
FromSqlOwned	A trait for types which can be created from a Postgres value without borrowing any data.
ToSql	A trait for types that can be converted into Postgres values.

Type Definitions

Oid	A Postgres OID.