Add Postgres support

[harryzcy]

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Fixes #959, #1397

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[gardleopard]

Hi, I've done a bit to test the postgres support myselves. I found that the user table needs to be renamed as it reserved in postgres. https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-keywords-appendix.html

Quite a few of the queries needs to be changed as well, like this:

-    let jwtSecretBean = await R.findOne("setting", " `key` = ? ", [
-        "jwtSecret",
-    ]);
+    let jwtSecretBean = await R.knex.select().from("setting").where('key', 'jwtSecret').first();

Im willing to help out, but this seems a bit stale. Any chances of getting postgres support merged if its finished?

@louislam do you think postgres support will be accepted if its completed?

[louislam]

It may take a longer to be merged unfortunately, because I have very limited time to test pull requests here. I will likely put my time on other new features first.

And I am honestly not familiar with PostgreSQL, it maybe increases the difficulty for me to maintain this project in the future.

So I would expected this pr will be in v3 or v4. And as MariaDB support is coming, I hope people should try this first.

Anyway, for the user table, maybe it can be escaped:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22256124/cannot-create-a-database-table-named-user-in-postgresql

Quite a few of the queries needs to be changed as well, like this:

I prefer not to change the query, because it is hard to review if there are too many changes. What is the error?

[gardleopard]

It may take a longer to be merged unfortunately, because I have very limited time to test pull requests here. I will likely put my time on other new features first.

And I am honestly not familiar with PostgreSQL, it maybe increases the difficulty for me to maintain this project in the future.

So I would expected this pr will be in v3 or v4. And as MariaDB support is coming, I hope people should try this first.

Anyway, for the user table, maybe it can be escaped:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22256124/cannot-create-a-database-table-named-user-in-postgresql

Quite a few of the queries needs to be changed as well, like this:

I prefer not to change the query, because it is hard to review if there are too many changes. What is the error?

That makes a lot of sense. The query fails like this

2023-12-28T21:39:45+01:00 [SERVER] ERROR: Failed to prepare your database: select * from "setting" where  `key` = $1  limit $2 - syntax error at or near "="

I can help out with the mariaDB testing if you want to. How can I help on that?

[louislam]

I can help out with the mariaDB testing if you want to. How can I help on that?

@gardleopard Yes, thank you so much, MariaDB should be 70% to 80% ready right now. 2.0.0 Checklist here:
#4171

[Zaid-maker]

Will it be possible to put this PR in v2, as i will give this shot and test it and review the feature. If that possible we can bring this feature in v2

[CommanderStorm]

See #3748 (comment) #3748 (comment)

=> We currently (v2.0) won't merge this, instead focussing on getting maridb stable first.
=> This will need to wait for another major release.

[bohenriksen2020]

I got so tired of running off of local storage or even longhorn storage which also got corrupted for me at some point, so I just pulled the master branch and merged in this PR today and it works like a charm for MariaDB after a minor fix to database.js::Database::initMariaDB

/* Change the following */
await createTables();
/ * To */
await createTables("mariadb");

PostgreSQL doesn't seem to work out of the box as https://www.npmjs.com/package/redbean-node does not support it yet. So some work needs doing there, but this is awesome! Now it's usable in a "homelab" production environment for MariaDB.