PostgreSQL for Doctrine

Enhances Doctrine with PostgreSQL-specific features and functions. Supports PostgreSQL 9.4+ and PHP 8.2+.

Documentation at postgresql-for-doctrine.dev

Quick Start

use Doctrine\DBAL\Types\Type as DoctrineType;
use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;
use MartinGeorgiev\Doctrine\DBAL\Type;
use MartinGeorgiev\Doctrine\DBAL\Types\ValueObject\NumericRange;

// Register types with Doctrine
// DBAL 4.3+ ships its own jsonb type, which, unlike this one, reads integers beyond PHP_INT_MAX as floats and writes 1.0 instead of 1
if (DoctrineType::hasType('jsonb')) {
    DoctrineType::overrideType('jsonb', "MartinGeorgiev\\Doctrine\\DBAL\\Types\\Jsonb");
} else {
    DoctrineType::addType('jsonb', "MartinGeorgiev\\Doctrine\\DBAL\\Types\\Jsonb");
}
DoctrineType::addType('text[]', "MartinGeorgiev\\Doctrine\\DBAL\\Types\\TextArray");
DoctrineType::addType('numrange', "MartinGeorgiev\\Doctrine\\DBAL\\Types\\NumRange");

// Use in your Doctrine entities
#[ORM\Column(type: Type::JSONB)]
private array $data;

#[ORM\Column(type: Type::TEXT_ARRAY)]
private array $tags;

#[ORM\Column(type: Type::NUMRANGE)]
private NumericRange $priceRange;

// Use in DQL
$query = $em->createQuery('
    SELECT e
    FROM App\Entity\Post e
    WHERE CONTAINS(e.tags, ARRAY(:tags)) = TRUE
    AND JSON_GET_FIELD(e.data, :field) = :value
');

🚀 Features Highlight

Data Types

• Array Types
  • Integer arrays (int[], smallint[], bigint[])
  • Float arrays (real[], double precision[])
  • Text arrays (text[])
  • Boolean arrays (bool[])
  • JSONB arrays (jsonb[])
• Binary Types
  • Raw binary data (bytea, bytea[])
• Bit String Types
  • Fixed-length bit strings (bit, bit[])
  • Variable-length bit strings (bit varying, bit varying[])
• JSON Types
  • Native JSONB support
  • JSON field operations
  • JSON construction and manipulation
• Network Types
  • IP addresses (inet, inet[])
  • Network CIDR notation (cidr, cidr[])
  • MAC addresses (macaddr, macaddr[], macaddr8, macaddr8[])
• Geometric Types
  • Box (box, box[])
  • Circle (circle, circle[])
  • Line (line, line[])
  • Line segment (lseg, lseg[])
  • Path (path, path[])
  • Point (point, point[])
  • Polygon (polygon, polygon[])
  • PostGIS Geometry (geometry, geometry[])
  • PostGIS Geography (geography, geography[])
• Range Types
  • Date and time ranges (daterange, daterange[], tsrange, tsrange[], tstzrange, tstzrange[])
  • Numeric ranges (numrange, numrange[], int4range, int4range[], int8range, int8range[])
  • Multiranges (datemultirange, datemultirange[], int4multirange, int4multirange[], int8multirange, int8multirange[], nummultirange, nummultirange[], tsmultirange, tsmultirange[], tstzmultirange, tstzmultirange[])
• Date and Time Types
  • Arrays (date[], timestamp[], timestamptz[])
  • Time durations with DateInterval support (interval, interval[])
  • String-represented time with timezone (timetz, timetz[])
• Text Search Types
  • Full-text search document (tsvector, tsvector[])
  • Full-text search query (tsquery, tsquery[])
• Case-Insensitive Text Types (requires citext extension)
  • Case-insensitive text (citext, citext[])
• ULID Types (requires pgx_ulid extension)
  • Sortable, timestamp-prefixed identifiers (ulid, ulid[])
• Key-Value Types (requires hstore extension)
  • Key-value store (hstore, hstore[])
• Monetary Types
  • Currency amounts (money, money[])
• XML Types
  • Native XML document storage (xml, xml[])
• Hierarchical Types
  • Label-tree data (ltree, ltree[])
• Vector Types (requires pgvector extension)
  • Fixed-dimension float vector (vector)
  • Half-precision float vector (halfvec)
  • Sparse vector (sparsevec)
• Enum Types
  • User-defined PostgreSQL enum types via Enum base class
• Composite Types
  • User-defined PostgreSQL composite (row) types via Composite base class
  • Access fields from user-defined composite types via COMPOSITE_FIELD() function

PostgreSQL Operators

• Array Operations
  • Contains (@>)
  • Is contained by (<@)
  • Overlaps (&&)
  • Array aggregation with ordering
• JSON Operations
  • Field access (->, ->>)
  • Path operations (#>, #>>)
  • JSON containment and existence operators
• Range Operations
  • Containment checks (in PHP value objects and for DQL queries with @> and <@)
  • Overlaps (&&)
• PostGIS Spatial Operations
  • Bounding box relationships (<<, >>, &<, &>, |&>, &<|, <<|, |>>)
  • Spatial containment (@, ~)
  • Distance calculations (<->, <#>, <<->>, |=|)
  • N-dimensional operations (&&&)

Functions

• Text Search
  • Full text search (to_tsvector, to_tsquery)
  • Pattern matching (ilike, similar to)
  • Regular expressions
  • String manipulation (ascii, btrim, char_length, chr, decode, encode, initcap, lpad, ltrim, octet_length, quote_ident, quote_literal, quote_nullable, rpad, rtrim, strpos, translate)
  • Trigram similarity (similarity, word_similarity, strict_word_similarity) (requires pg_trgm extension)
  • Hashing & Checksum (md5, sha224, sha256, sha384, sha512, crc32, crc32c, reverse for bytea)
• Array Functions
  • Generic array aggregation and manipulation (array_agg, array_append, array_prepend, array_remove, array_replace, array_shuffle)
  • Array dimensions and length
  • Special aggregates (any_value)
• JSON Functions
  • JSON construction (json_build_object, jsonb_build_object)
  • JSON manipulation and transformation
  • Row to JSON (row_to_json, row)
• Date Functions
  • Current timestamp functions (clock_timestamp, statement_timestamp, transaction_timestamp)
  • Interval adjustment (justify_days, justify_hours, justify_interval)
• Aggregate Functions
  • Aggregation with ordering and distinct (array_agg, json_agg, jsonb_agg)
  • Conditional aggregation with FILTER (WHERE ...) on any aggregate
  • Statistical aggregates (bool_and, bool_or, every, bit_and, bit_or, bit_xor, stddev, stddev_pop, var_pop, variance, corr, covar_pop, covar_samp)
  • Ordered-set aggregates with WITHIN GROUP (ORDER BY ...) (percentile_cont, percentile_disc, mode)
  • Special aggregates (any_value, xmlagg)
• Window Functions
  • Any aggregate over a window with OVER, including PARTITION BY, ORDER BY and ROWS, RANGE and GROUPS frame clauses
  • Ranking (row_number, rank, dense_rank, percent_rank, cume_dist, ntile)
  • Value (lag, lead, first_value, last_value, nth_value)
• Hstore Functions (requires hstore extension)
  • Key and value extraction (akeys, avals, skeys, svals)
  • Key inspection (defined)
  • Key deletion (delete)
  • JSON conversion (hstore_to_json, hstore_to_json_loose)
• XML Functions
  • XML aggregation, construction, manipulation, validation (xmlagg, xmlcomment, xmlconcat, xml_is_well_formed)
  • XPath querying (xpath, xpath_exists)
• Mathematical/Arithmetic Functions
  • Trigonometric functions (sin, cos, tan, asin, acos, atan, degree variants)
  • Hyperbolic functions (sinh, cosh, tanh, asinh, acosh, atanh)
  • Number theory functions (gcd, lcm, factorial, div)
  • Statistical functions (erf, erfc, random_normal)
• Range Functions
  • Range construction (daterange, int4range, int8range, numrange, tsrange, tstzrange)
  • Range aggregation (range_agg, range_intersect_agg)
• Utility Functions
  • Type casting (cast)
  • Data formatting (to_char, to_number)
  • UUID generation and inspection (uuidv4, uuidv7, uuid_extract_timestamp, uuid_extract_version)
• Vector Distance Functions (requires pgvector extension)
  • Distance and similarity (l2_distance, cosine_distance, inner_product)

Full documentation, also published at postgresql-for-doctrine.dev:

• Getting started - From install to a first query
• Available Types
• Value Objects for Range Types
• PostgreSQL ltree Types
• Infinity Values
• Writing DQL - How PostgreSQL syntax is written in DQL
• Available Functions and Operators - Overview and cross-references
  • Array and JSON Functions
  • PostGIS Spatial Functions
  • Text and Pattern Functions
  • Date and Range Functions
  • Mathematical and statistical functions
  • Utility Functions
  • XML Functions
  • Window Functions
  • Network Address Functions
• Examples
• PostGIS geometry and geography
• Geometry Arrays
• Troubleshooting - Common errors, by the message you see

📦 Installation

composer require martin-georgiev/postgresql-for-doctrine

Then follow Getting started to register a type and a function and run a first query.

🔧 Integration Guides

• Symfony setup
• Laravel setup
• Doctrine setup

💡 Usage Examples

See our Examples for detailed code samples.

🧪 Testing

Unit Tests

composer run-unit-tests

PostgreSQL Integration Tests

We also provide integration tests that run against a real PostgreSQL database with PostGIS:

# Start PostgreSQL with PostGIS using Docker Compose
docker compose up -d

# Run integration tests
composer run-integration-tests

# Stop PostgreSQL
docker compose down -v

See tests/Integration/README.md for more details.

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📝 License

This package is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.

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