rust-postgres VS clap-rs

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rust-postgres clap-rs
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Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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rust-postgres

Posts with mentions or reviews of rust-postgres. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-18.
  • PostgreSQL Logical Replication Explained
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Mar 2023
    For C there should be good options.

    For Rust it doesn't appear that well-supported.

    A very simple approach is to poll for changes using `pg_logical_slot_get_changes()` - that should work with any driver. That's what I used for my initial experimentation, before switching over to the streaming replication protocol for better performance.

    The streaming replication protocol is not that complicated, but currently you'll have to handle some of the low-level protocol yourself, or work with some very experimental implementations. There's a project to help get you started at [1], and some more discussion at [2].

    For the logical decoder, wal2json is quite nice to experiment with, but I've found pgoutput is not that complicated and gives you something closer to the raw data.

    [1]: https://github.com/seddonm1/logicaldecoding/

    [2]: https://github.com/sfackler/rust-postgres/issues/116

  • Push-Based Outbox Pattern with Postgres Logical Replication
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Oct 2022
  • Cómo usar gRPC con Rust Tonic y Postgres con ejemplos
    2 projects | dev.to | 11 Jun 2022
    En este post aprendermos a usar Rust, Tonic y la crate gRPC, y implementaremos un CRUD con Postgresql database.
  • Reviews of the Diesel ORM, are there better alternatives?
    11 projects | /r/rust | 15 May 2022
    I can understand that this can be frustrating and I know that the situation there is not ideal for diesel. There are certainly things to improve there by either providing a bundling support which builds the native library as part of the normal build process or by implementing a pure rust connection implementation. Both is possible with diesel, but requires some work. At least the pure rust connection implementation is something that can be provided by a third party crate now with upcoming diesel 2.0 release. If you are interested in that checkout this and this issue. As for the bundling support: This requires changes in the mysqlclient-sys and pq-sys crates. Again help there is welcome. In the end it makes me sad that some people have repeating decided that a solution to this problem is to write just another crate instead of helping to fix these issues. This just results in everyone have more work to do, as there are now two non-perfect solutions instead of having one slightly improved solution.
  • GitHub - tzConnectBerlin/rust-pg_bigdecimal: A Rust native datatype for Postgres' Numeric type, to be used with Rust's "Postgres" library.
    2 projects | /r/rust | 14 Jan 2022
    We created this little library to have a fully native type for Postgres Numerics with the rust-postgres (https://github.com/sfackler/rust-postgres) library.
  • pigeon-rs: Open source email automation written in Rust
    5 projects | /r/rust | 20 Nov 2021
    The problem with a crate like postgres is that you have to define the types of the query at compile-time. And if you use the simple query protocol in postgres, you just get a bunch of strings, i.e. no proper typing at all. However, for maximal flexibility arbitrary queries should work in pigeon, without knowing the database schema.
  • Announcing Usual -- a small nORM wrapper to make dealing with SQL easier (like tokio-postgres)
    2 projects | /r/rust | 25 Aug 2021
    Some nifty things about usual: - It's a generic wrapper over any SQL "row" object. The first implementation that's provided is for tokio-postgres, but traits are available to implement over whatever you'd like. - It provides static typing for partial queries. That is, it supports fetching a subset of fields from a row and makes a unique type for the return value. This gives you some neat-o type safety like this:
  • How to use gRPC with Rust Tonic and Postgres database with examples
    3 projects | dev.to | 13 May 2021
    In this post, we will learn how to use Rust Tonic gRPC crate. We will learn how to implement CRUD with Postgresql database.
  • Hey Rustaceans! Got an easy question? Ask here (12/2021)!
    15 projects | /r/rust | 22 Mar 2021
    (see: https://github.com/sfackler/rust-postgres/blob/e15c9b1415f69821799f1370246581c1600a6196/postgres-protocol/src/types/mod.rs#L137)
  • Scylla Developer Hackathon: Rust Driver
    2 projects | /r/rust | 18 Feb 2021
    Driver is a typical database driver which allows your code to communicated with the database. ex: https://github.com/sfackler/rust-postgres

clap-rs

Posts with mentions or reviews of clap-rs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-23.
  • Build Your Own curl - Rust
    2 projects | dev.to | 23 Mar 2024
    We will be using the library for Clap - A simple-to-use, efficient, and full-featured library for parsing command line arguments and subcommands.
  • Getting Started with CLI tools in Rust using Clap
    5 projects | dev.to | 10 Dec 2023
    We can also use tuple-like struct syntax and named-field struct syntax for enum variants within our enum; this is because unlike in other OOP languages, Rust enums are actually sum types. You can read more about how powerful Rust enums are in another article we wrote here. You can have optional arguments by simply wrapping the types in Option, but if you want to add a flag to a command you can use bool, since clap recognises that flags are either there or not there. Let's have a look at what this might look like:
  • Flow Updater JSON Creator
    8 projects | dev.to | 9 Dec 2023
    I began by developing a wrapper for the CurseForge API, which turned out to be a lengthy and challenging process but constituted the bulk of the work. Next, I coded the CLI, which was relatively straightforward. Instead of using the clap crate, a Rust tool for generating CLIs, I opted for the following line of code:
  • netcrab: a networking tool
    4 projects | dev.to | 14 Oct 2023
    By this time I had already gotten tired of parsing arguments by myself and had looked for something to help with that. I found a really dang good argument parsing library called clap. What makes it so cool is it's largely declarative for common uses. You simply mark up a struct with attributes, and the parser automatically generates the usage and all the argument parsing code.
  • Grimoire - A recipe management application.
    7 projects | /r/rust | 5 Oct 2023
    How CLI arguments are handled (using clap).
  • Rust 1.72.0
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Aug 2023
  • I made an alternative --help renderer for clap based applications
    2 projects | /r/rust | 18 Jul 2023
    Is this just referring to wrapping based on the terminal width? That is supported with the wrap_help feature though I have been considering making it a default feature.
  • Looking for advice around project direction using artix-web
    3 projects | /r/rust | 27 May 2023
    CLI, use Clap. If you want to get fancy, use Tui.
  • Build a HTTP server with Rust and tokio - Part 1: serving static files
    2 projects | dev.to | 21 May 2023
    As our CLI is getting more complex, we'll use the clap crate to parse the command line arguments.
  • [self-made] havn - fast lightweight port scanner
    4 projects | /r/rust | 18 May 2023
    I’m not sure why I decided to create it, I think I tried to use RustScan for a simple task last week, but it was too convoluted for my needs, as well as the fact that it requires nmap to be installed. Thus havn was born, nothing else needed, and only directly using two dependencies, Tokio and Clap, although I think If I really wanted to, I could remove the Clap dependency, but it’s just so handy and easy to use.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing rust-postgres and clap-rs you can also consider the following projects:

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sqlx - 🧰 The Rust SQL Toolkit. An async, pure Rust SQL crate featuring compile-time checked queries without a DSL. Supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite.

docopt.rs - Docopt for Rust (command line argument parser).

argparse-benchmarks-rs - Collected benchmarks for arg parsing crates written in Rust [Moved to: https://github.com/rosetta-rs/argparse-rosetta-rs]

tikv - Distributed transactional key-value database, originally created to complement TiDB

r2d2 - A generic connection pool for Rust

easy_flag - Simple command line flag parser for rust.

serde - Serialization framework for Rust

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