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Major improvements
CockroachDB connector is now Generally Available!
We are proud to announce the CockroachDB connector is now stable and Generally Available. The connector was built in joined efforts with the team at Cockroach Labs and comes with full Prisma Client and Prisma Migrate support.
If you're upgrading from Prisma version 3.9.0
+ or the PostgreSQL connector, you can now run npx prisma db pull
and review the changes to your schema. To learn more about CockroachDB-specific native types we support, refer to our docs.
To learn more about the connector and how it differs from PostgreSQL, head to our documentation.
PostgreSQL GIN
, GiST
, SP-GiST
, and BRIN
indexes support (Preview)
We introduced the extendedIndexes
Preview feature in version 3.5.0
, and we have been adding new configuration options for indexes. We've expanded index type support with the GIN
, GiST
, SP-GiST
, and BRIN
indexes in this release.
To make use of an index type, you can update your Prisma schema by providing the type
argument to the @@index
attribute:
datasource db {
provider = "postgresql"
url = env("DATABASE_URL")
}
generator client {
provider = "prisma-client-js"
previewFeatures = ["extendedIndexes"]
}
model Post {
id Int @id
title String
content String?
tags Json?
@@index([tags], type: Gin)
}
The following SQL will be generated in your migration when you run prisma migrate dev
:
CREATE TABLE "Post" (
"id" INTEGER NOT NULL,
"title" TEXT NOT NULL,
"content" TEXT,
"tags" JSONB,
CONSTRAINT "Post_pkey" PRIMARY KEY ("id")
);
CREATE INDEX "Post_tags_idx" ON "Post" USING GIN ("tags");
To learn more about configuring index types in your schema, refer to our documentation.
Improved queryRaw
API
In this release, we made improvements to the SQL raw API. Some improvements are breaking and will be available behind the new improvedQueryRaw
Preview feature flag.
The improvedQueryRaw
Preview feature solves most of the issues faced when working with the raw API. We would encourage you to turn on the Preview feature flag, try out the new API, and let us know how we can make it even better.
You can enable the Preview feature in your Prisma schema as follows:
```prisma
datasource db {
provider = "postgresql"
url = env("DATABASE_URL")
}
generator client {
provider = "prisma-client-js"
previewFeatures = ["improvedQueryRaw"]
}
```
Here's a list of the improvements improvedQueryRaw
comes with:
1. Raw scalar values are deserialized as their correct JavaScript types
Prisma Client queries such as findMany
deserialize database scalar values to their corresponding JavaScript types. For example, a DateTime
value is deserialized as a JavaScript Date,
and a Bytes
would be deserialized as a JavaScript Buffer
.
Raw queries now implement the same behavior when the improvedQueryRaw
Preview feature flag is enabled.
β οΈ This change is not yet available in the SQLite connector.
The types of values from the database will be used instead of the types in the Prisma schema. Here's an example query and response:
const res = await prisma.$queryRaw`SELECT bigint, bytes, decimal, date FROM "Table";`
console.log(res)
// [{ bigint: BigInt("123"), bytes: Buffer.from([1, 2]), decimal: new Prisma.Decimal("12.34"), date: Date("<some_date>") }]
Here's a table that recaps the serialization type-mapping for raw results:
| Database Type | Javascript Type |
| --- | --- |
| Text | String |
| Int32 | Number |
| Float | Number |
| Double | Number |
| Int64 | BigInt |
| Numeric | Decimal |
| Bytes | Buffer |
| Json | Object |
| DateTime | Date |
| Date | Date |
| Time | Date |
| Uuid | String |
| Xml | String |
2. PostgreSQL type-casts
We've also fixed a lot of PostgreSQL type-casts that were broken by enabling the improvedQueryRaw
Preview feature flag.
Here's an example of a query that used to fail:
await prisma.$queryRaw`SELECT ${1.5}::int as int`;
// Before: db error: ERROR: incorrect binary data format in bind parameter 1
// After: [{ int: 2 }]
You can now perform some more type-casts in your queries:
await prisma.$queryRaw`SELECT ${2020}::float4, ${"1 day"}::interval, ${"2022-01-01 00:00:00"}::timestamptz;`
A consequence of this fix is that some subtle implicit casts are now handled more strictly and would fail. Here's an example that used to work but won't work anymore under the improvedQueryRaw
feature flag:
await prisma.$queryRaw`SELECT LENGTH(${42});`
// ERROR: function length(integer) does not exist
// HINT: No function matches the given name and argument types. You might need to add explicit type casts.
The LENGTH
PostgreSQL function only accept text
as input. Prisma used to coerce 42
to text
silently, but wonβt anymore. As suggested by the hint, cast 42
to text
as follows:
await prisma.$queryRaw`SELECT LENGTH(${42}::text);`
3. Query parameters are correctly sent to the database
This improvement is available without the improvedQueryRaw
Preview feature flag.
Before this release, query parameters of type BigInt
, Bytes
, and Decimal
were incorrectly sent to the database leading to instances of unexpected inserts. Passing the types as query parameters now works:
await prisma.$executeRaw`INSERT INTO "Table" ("bigint", "bytes", "decimal") VALUES (${BigInt("123")}, ${Buffer.from([1, 2, 3])}, ${new Prisma.Decimal("12.23")});`
Fixes and improvements
Prisma Client
Prisma
Prisma Migrate
Language tools (e.g. VS Code)
Credits
Huge thanks to @ever0de, @flatplate, @njmaeff, @tnzk, @DePasqualeOrg for helping!
Prisma Day
Prisma Day is back this year, and it'll be on June 15 - 16 at the JamesJune Sommergarten in Berlin. Join us in-person or online for talks and workshops on modern application development and databases. Come and meet and chat with the team behind the Prisma ORM and Prisma Data Platform.
πΌ We're hiring!
If you're interested in joining our growing team to help empower developers to build data-intensive applications, Prisma is the place for you.
We're hiring for a number of roles: Technical Support Engineer, Back-end Engineer: Prisma Data Platform, and a Developer Advocate(Frontend/ Fullstack). You can find more jobs we're hiring for on our jobs page.
Feel free to read through the job descriptions and apply using the links provided.
πΊ Join us for another "What's new in Prisma" livestream
Learn about the latest release and other news from the Prisma community by joining us for another "What's new in Prisma" livestream.
The stream takes place on YouTube on Thursday, May 12 at 5 pm Berlin | 8 am San Francisco.