[erlang-questions] API design and pgapp

[David Welton]

Hi,

> I don't think it's a productive addition to that epgsql conversation, but I would write only update_stats/1. A Postgres connection is not a trivial thing like an Erlang process.  On a default installation you only get a couple hundred of them and you can see some unpleasant surprises if you go over. Therefore, I think it's a mistake to not explicitly track your connections in the code.

You could say the same thing about other resources, like, say, memory.
Or write a system that helps the programmer work at a higher level by
setting up some 'good defaults' and managing the underlying resources.
pgapp is the latter kind of system.

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