Return objects rather than arrays

The node.js project node-postgres or pg returns objects rather than rows of arrays. It was elegant to work with. Is there a reason this project only returns an array of arrays? Am I missing something?

[hayd]

IMO we should copy what node-postgres does.

[ebebbington]

What about something like:

// deno-postgres inernal code
let returnedResult = []
const queryResult = query(...)
const rows = queryResult.rows
const columns = queryResult.rowDescription.columns
const columnNames: string[] = columns.map((column) => {
  return column.name;
});
rows.forEach((row, rowIndex) => {
  let rowData: any = {};
  row.forEach((rVal, rIndex) => {
    const columnName: string = columnNames[rIndex];
    rowData[columnName] = row[rIndex];
  });
  returnedResult.push(rowData);
});
returnedResult = userDefinedQueryData.limit === 1 ? returnedResult[0] :  returnedResult
return {
  query: ...
  ...
  rows: returnedResult
}

// user code
const result = client.query(...)
const rows = result.rows // [{ name: "Edward"}, {name: "Hayd"} }]

(Could be improved but you get the gist)

I’ve actually implemented something similar in a Deno project that uses deno-postgres but that was obviously manual work, and each db query calls that method to get the data in key value pairs