Optional INSERT statement in transaction chain using NodeJS and Postgres

Question

I\'m building a simple webapp using NodeJS/Postgres that needs to make 3 insertions in the database.

To control the chain of statements I\'m using <

Answer 1

Manual transaction management is a treacherous path, try to steer away from that! ;)

Here's how to do it properly, with the help of pg-promise:

function(req, res) {
    db.tx(t => { // automatic BEGIN
            return t.one('INSERT_1 VALUES(...) RETURNING id', paramValues)
                .then(data => {
                    var q = t.none('INSERT_2 VALUES(...)', data.id);
                    if (req.body.value != null) {
                        return q.then(()=> t.none('INSERT_3 VALUES(...)', data.id));
                    }
                    return q;
                });
        })
        .then(data => {
            res.send("Everything's fine!"); // automatic COMMIT was executed
        })
        .catch(error => {
            res.send("Something is wrong!"); // automatic ROLLBACK was executed
        });
}

Or, if you prefer ES7 syntax:

function (req, res) {
    db.tx(async t => { // automatic BEGIN
            let data = await t.one('INSERT_1 VALUES(...) RETURNING id', paramValues);
            let q = await t.none('INSERT_2 VALUES(...)', data.id);
            if (req.body.value != null) {
                return await t.none('INSERT_3 VALUES(...)', data.id);
            }
            return q;
        })
        .then(data => {
            res.send("Everything's fine!"); // automatic COMMIT was executed
        })
        .catch(error => {
            res.send("Something is wrong!"); // automatic ROLLBACK was executed
        });
}

UPDATE

Replaced ES6 generators with ES7 async/await in the example, because pg-promise stopped supporting ES6 generators from version 9.0.0