pg_str: the postgresql extension for strings

add some good default string manipulation functions to postgresql. build using the rust library pgrx: https://github.com/pgcentralfoundation/pgrx.

function api and behavior is inspired by the laravel web framework: https://laravel.com/docs/10.x/strings

installation

git clone https://gitea.publicmatt.com/public/pg_str.git
cd pg_str
cargo pgx package # run cargo install pgx first
sudo make install # adjust Makefile if using different version of postgresql than 13.

this puts the binaries and sql into the right folder location. next you need to create the extension in postgresql:

psql
> create extension pg_str; # installs functions in a 'public' schema. 
> select str_markdown('# Hello '
|| str.snake('pg str')
|| '- ~~using programming language for str manipulations~~ 
- **do it all in postgresql** ');

api thus far:

• after
• [] afterLast
• ascii
• [] before
• [] beforeLast
• [] between
• camel
• contains
• containsAll
• [] endsWith
• [] finish
• [] headline
• [] is
• isAscii
• [] isUuid
• kebab
• length
• [] limit
• lower
• markdown
• [] mask
• [] orderedUuid
• [] padBoth
• [] padLeft
• [] padRight
• plural
• [] pluralStudly
• random
• [] remove
• replace
• [] replaceArray
• [] replaceFirst
• [] replaceLast
• [] reverse
• singular
• slug
• snake
• start
• [] startsWith
• studly
• substr
• [] substrCount
• [] substrReplace
• title
• [] ucfirst
• upper
• uuid
• [] wordCount
• [] words