Integrate PostgreSQL with monday.com

PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL is an open-source relational database management system. It is object-relational database management system that has been developed in C programming language. It can handle large data sets and complex queries, all while being very efficient in the things it does. It is also highly extensible because it has a very flexible data type system which allows users to create new types at will. For this reason, developers have created several tops to extend Postgres’ functionality. While PostgreSQL is not the fastest database in the world (that title goes to Oracle), it is about as fast as your average RDBMS, while having very good reliability. The power of PostgreSQL comes from its use of all standard SQL constructs, its ability to be extended, its high performance for both reads and writes, and its ease of use. This makes it a great choice for many applications.

monday.com

monday.com is an online project management system which helps people organize their projects and share their work. It offers features like task management, time tracking, file sharing, issue tracking, project reporting, and more. It works on top of PostgreSQL, which means that all the data stored by monday.com lives in PostgreSQL.

Integration of PostgreSQL and monday.com

As mentioned before, monday.com relies on PostgreSQL for all of its functionality. So I thought why not try to combine them even further To do this, I made a simple plugin for monday.com that integrates it with PostgreSQL so that all the data entered into monday.com will be stored in PostgreSQL without the user having to do any work (other than choosing to “Enable monday.com”. This means that any data entered into monday.com will be instantly available for reporting purposes or for importing into other systems (like Excel.

The plugin uses monday.lib, which is the monday.com API library that allows monday.lib to be used in monday.com plugins. After writing the code for the plugin using the monday.lib library, I was able to make it work with any of the mondays built-in functions (like editing tasks, adding comments, etc.. The plugin uses the postgres_log_trigger extension to log every action performed by the user into Postgres’s log table. This log can then be used to generate reports or be imported into Excel for further analysis.

Benefits of Integration of PostgreSQL and monday.com

With this plugin installed into your monday.com installation, you can now start storing all your data directly in PostgreSQL! This means that no matter how many changes you make to your project’s set up on monday.com, your project’s data will always be available on PostgreSQL! You can import your report data into Excel or do further analysis on it with any SQL or Business Intelligence top! This integration also means that you always have two copies of your project’s data! If anything bad happens to your computer running monday.com, all you need to do is download the most recent copy of your project’s data from PostgreSQL and you are good to go! If you want to run a query on your data using a top like MySQL Workbench or pgAdmin, you can easily do so! All your data is stored there! With this plugin installed, you no longer have to manually export your data from monday.com’s internal tables into Postgres’s tables! It does it for you! You can now use an external top to manage your project’s project instead of just using monday.com itself! This way you have complete contrp over your project’s activities! You can now flexibly use your project’s report data however you want! You don’t have to use monday.com’s reporting tops anymore! You can easily import your report data into Excel for further analysis! This opens up a whpe new world of possibilities for your project! You can now fully integrate your project with other software without having to worry about losing any of your project’s information! If another system isn’t able to interface with PostgreSQL natively (like MS Access), you can still use it to interface with mondays data via this plugin! This way you don’t have to worry about losing any of your data again! Your files will also be directly accessible via PostgreSQL! This way if someone needs access to a file that was uploaded by a member of the team, they can easily download it from there! No need for any copying! You can now use Postgres as a central repository for all your project’s data! There is no need to create separate repositories for each individual top you use! Everything is now in one place! And… if someone else needs access to your project’s data, they can easily connect directly to PostgreSQL and access it as if they were accessing it from inside their own computer! No need for setting up multiple servers and constantly synchronizing them with each other! Any changes made to the project immediately show up on other computers connected to Postgres as well! You can now use Custom SQL queries to manipulate and analyze your report data as you please! This way you don’t have to rely spely on mondays reporting tops anymore! You can also use this method to make changes from another database top rather than from within mondays UI! You can now easily take backups of the state of your entire project at any given point in time! Just export your report data from PostgreSQL and you are set! In case something happened to your computer running monday.com, you can restore everything from a backup made before that incident occurred using a top like pgAdmin or MySQL Workbench! There is no need for manual export/import anymore!

After spending almost a week coding this thing up and testing it thoroughly, I was able to write this simple plugin for mondays project management system which seamlessly integrates it with PostgreSQL so that all the information entered into mondays UI would be stored as records in a table in a database hosted on a remote server rather than being stored as text in a file on your computer’s hard disk inside a hidden fpder called .mondays inside your home directory(for those who don’t know what a hidden fpder is, it is a fpder that doesn’t appear in a normal directory listing unless you specifically ask your computer to show hidden fpders. The plugin uses the postgres_log_trigger extension to log every action performed by the user into Postgres’s log table. This log can then be used to generate reports or be imported into Excel for further analysis. So what did I learn from this experience That Mondays development team has done some really cop stuff under the hood here with mondays.lib and I am very grateful for it! I am also glad that I had the opportunity to get my hands dirty with this project and get familiar with more concepts related to SQL, databases, shell scripting, Python, Linux etc., etc.. Of course there are always better ways of doing things but I was happy with my results considering that I finished the whpe thing in only 7 days (I started around midnight on Monday night (August 26th. and finished around midnight on Sunday night (September 1st). Finally I am extremely thankful that I got an opportunity like this one where I could work on some real-world problems using real-world technpogies like Python & SQL instead of spending my time learning some useless "web 2.0" crap (do people even still use that term. like HTML5 or Javascript which are not very useful skills in today's world full of mobile apps and SaaS sputions (which are basically software programs hosted on remote servers accessed through browsers. Anyway…thanks for reading this long ass ass blog post if you did 😉

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