Standardize SQL database interface for TS/JS

[halvardssm]

It's a topic that has been brought up every now and then in the Deno DB community, but as Deno is becoming more stable, supports NPM and Node, and we got JSR, I believe it's time to consolidate and create a db standard SQL interface for TS and JS.

I have created a POC in my repo PR.

Any input and contribution is greatly appreciated and encouraged as it would be best to make this a collaborative effort amongst the database maintainers since they know the pitfalls for the different engines.

The milestones are as follows:

• Decide on an interface for DB clients that can be implemented by any SQL based db. Wrappers can be created for existing database clients to locate potential issues with the interface and current implementations.
• Refactor existing databases to implement these interfaces.

The goal for this is to be able to easily transition between databases and have a familiar interface and usage between them.

Consider the PR as a parent issue to have discussions, and where we can finalize the implementation.

[langpavel]

Nice idea but very hard task!

There is @bartlomieju/postgres at JSR
which unfortunately does not look maintained (sorry for that opinion), not connected to this project – no possibility to open discussions nor PRs, feels like closed source 💔
Why @bartlomieju? It may be hard to keep all the responsibility. I know this well, but…

There is great node-postgres (@brianc) (npm:pg) best in town library at that time.
I had the honor to work on it. But time for great new language features ❤️ and simplifications 🚀 may be here.

And that's not the end.
There will be more libraries in time. It's natural.

https://xkcd.com/927/

[langpavel]

BTW @halvardssm some suggestions?

[bartlomieju]

There is @bartlomieju/postgres at JSR which unfortunately does not look maintained (sorry for that opinion), not connected to this project – no possibility to open discussions nor PRs, feels like closed source 💔 Why @bartlomieju? It may be hard to keep all the responsibility. I know this well, but…

The one published to JSR is literally this library.

[halvardssm]

@langpavel jupp, a very hard task indeed,but I think with some collaboration it should be feasible 💪🏻 and yes, feel free do send feedback in the PR.

[halvardssm]

RFC has been created: halvardssm/stdext#6