difficulty with typescript - classes not being properly recognized for some reason using @types/pg

[Dave Torrey]

I have the weirdest problem. I've used pg fine with regular javascript when setting 'module' in package.json. however, when using typescript and @types/pg, I get the following error:

SyntaxError: Named export 'Pool' not found. The requested module 'pg' is a CommonJS module, which may not support all module.exports as named exports.
CommonJS modules can always be imported via the default export, for example using:

what's really weird is i can see in the index.d.ts that it properly exports the Pool class, but I can't figure out what exactly is going on.

I've tried the import * as pg method i've seen elsewhere, but then on let x = new pg.Pool() it complains that pg.Pool is not a constructor.

[Charmander]

CommonJS modules can always be imported via the default export

Using the default export would be import pg from 'pg'.

[Safricloud]

You can import pg and whatever types and classes you need like so:
import pg, { Connection, PoolClient } from 'pg';

[Dave Torrey]

Thanks, that did it. No idea why i struggled with that