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Expand Up @@ -7,7 +7,14 @@ PostgreSQL client for node.js. Pure JavaScript and native libpq bindings.
## Installation

npm install pg


### Windows

1. Install Visual Studio C++ (successfully built with Express 2010). Express is free.
2. Add your Postgre Installation's `bin` folder to the system path (i.e. `C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\9.3\bin`).
3. Make sure that both `libpq.dll` and `pg_config.exe` are in that folder.
4. `npm install pg`

## Examples

### Client pooling
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node-postgres is by design _low level_ with the bare minimum of abstraction. These might help out:

- https://github.com/brianc/node-pg-query-stream
- https://github.com/brianc/node-pg-cursor
- https://github.com/brianc/node-pg-copy-streams
- https://github.com/grncdr/node-any-db
- https://github.com/brianc/node-sql
- https://github.com/CSNW/sql-bricks
- [brianc/node-pg-query-stream](https://github.com/brianc/node-pg-query-stream) - Query results from node-postgres as a readable (object) stream
- [brianc/node-pg-cursor](https://github.com/brianc/node-pg-cursor) - Query cursor extension for node-postgres
- [brianc/node-pg-copy-streams](https://github.com/brianc/node-pg-copy-streams) - COPY FROM / COPY TO for node-postgres. Stream from one database to another, and stuff.
- [brianc/node-postgres-pure](https://github.com/brianc/node-postgres-pure) - node-postgres without any of the C/C++ stuff
- [brianc/node-pg-types](https://github.com/brianc/node-pg-types) - Type parsing for node-postgres
- [grncdr/node-any-db](https://github.com/grncdr/node-any-db) - Thin and less-opinionated database abstraction layer for node.
- [brianc/node-sql](https://github.com/brianc/node-sql) - SQL generation for node.js
- [hiddentao/suqel](https://hiddentao.github.io/squel/) - SQL query string builder for Javascript
- [CSNW/sql-bricks](https://github.com/CSNW/sql-bricks) - Transparent, Schemaless SQL Generation


## Production Use
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