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PostgreSQL provider for Koan relational data: Dapper-based SQL integration with guardrails and governance.

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Install

dotnet add package Sylin.Koan.Data.Connector.Postgres --version 0.21.0
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README

Sylin.Koan.Data.Connector.Postgres

PostgreSQL provider for Koan managed entities and existing relational data.

  • Target framework: net10.0
  • License: Apache-2.0

Capabilities

  • Connection + health checks with minimal options
  • JSON projection, filter, and paging pushdowns where supported
  • Schema helpers (create table/index) via Koan.Data.Relational
  • Provider-bounded Entity streams through DataCaps.Query.ProviderBoundedPaging
  • Compact flat, structured, nested-path, composite-key, and generated-key maps
  • Read-only fail-fast safety and non-creating StorageLifecycle.External
  • Provider-neutral container inspection and bounded record sampling
  • Registered parameterized SQL reads and scalars through provider-enforced read lanes

Install

The generated product surface owns support maturity. This page owns PostgreSQL behavior and limits; they do not imply parity with every relational backend.

dotnet add package Sylin.Koan.Data.Connector.Postgres

Minimal setup

  • Keep the application's ordinary services.AddKoan() bootstrap.
  • For autonomous local discovery, run a reachable PostgreSQL service and omit explicit configuration.
  • Otherwise set ConnectionStrings:Postgres or Koan:Data:Postgres:ConnectionString; keep secrets outside source control.
builder.Services.AddKoan();

public sealed class Order : Entity<Order>;

var saved = await new Order().Save();
var same = await Order.Get(saved.Id);

Connect an existing table without introducing a parallel data API:

builder.Services.AddKoan(koan => koan.Data
    .Source("Legacy")
    .Map<Customer>(map => map
        .Container("CUSTOMER")
        .Key(customer => customer.Id).Name("CUSTOMER_NO")
        .Property(customer => customer.DisplayName).Name("DISPLAY_NM")
        .Property(customer => customer.Profile).Object("PROFILE_JSON")));

using (EntityContext.Source("Legacy"))
{
    var customer = await Customer.Get(7);
}

Set StorageLifecycle=External when Koan must validate but never create or repair the table. Set Access=ReadOnly when writes must reject before provider mutation. Nested .Path("NAME_DATA", "full") updates preserve unbound values inside the same jsonb object.

Explore or name a useful read without adding a second data API:

koan.Data.Source("Legacy").Query("customers.active", query => query
    .Lane("Reports")
    .Sql("select id as Id, name as Name from customers where active = @active")
    .Parameter<bool>("active"));

var legacy = Data.Source("Legacy");
var active = await legacy.Query("customers.active", new { active = true });
var containers = await legacy.Inspect().Containers(100, null, ct);

Opaque SQL requires a configured read lane. PostgreSQL executes it in a native read-only transaction.

Usage - safe snippets

  • Use first-class model statics from your entities:
    • Order.FirstPage(50, ct) / Order.Page(2, 50, ct)
    • Order.Query(o => o.CustomerId == id, ct)
    • await foreach (var o in Order.QueryStream(o => o.Total > 100, ct)) { ... }
// Stream a filtered set through consumer-paced provider pages
await foreach (var o in Order.QueryStream(o => o.IsActive, ct))
{
    // process
}

Streaming boundary

AllStream and QueryStream request one numbered PostgreSQL page at a time. batchSize caps the Koan-visible candidate page; it does not claim a bound for opaque provider-driver buffers. Streaming accepts only DATA-0107's first proved user-sort floor: top-level, non-nullable bool, byte, sbyte, short, ushort, or int. Other user sorts reject before provider I/O. Data.Core separately appends the usual string Entity identifier as an opaque provider-stable tie-break, not a cross-provider collation promise.

These streams do not provide snapshot consistency, mutation-safe traversal, resumability, or a public cursor. Concurrent writes can therefore cause skips or duplicates during offset-based traversal.

See TECHNICAL.md for options and pushdown coverage.

References

Changes from Previous Version

No structural changes between v0.20.4 and v0.21.0.

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