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Postgres.js - The Fastest full featured PostgreSQL client

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What it is

Postgres.js - The Fastest full featured PostgreSQL client

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

>> What would you recommend I look at in JS land knowing I love django and dislike flask? I just use typescript and nodejs and the database. No framework except the express web…

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 3:30:57 AM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year48 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2019-12-23 15:37:50 UTC to 2026-03-17 16:34:21 UTC.

0510152019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 11 mentions; 1 submissions, 10 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 17 mentions; 1 submissions, 16 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 0 submissions, 8 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC11110
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC17116
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC808
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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Oh hello! Very happy to hear from you, and even happier to be wrong about your "AWOL-ness" (since I want to ship postgres.js to prod). :-) My assumption was just from, afaict, the general lack of triage on GitHub issues, i.e. for a few needs we have like tracing/APM, and then also admittedly esoteric topics like this stack trace fixing: https://github.com/porsager/postgres/issues/963#issuecomment... Fwiw I definitely sympathize with issue triage being time-consuming/sometimes a pita, i.e. where a nontrivial/majority of issues are from well-meaning but maybe naive users asking for free support/filing incorrect/distracting issues. I don't have an answer, but just saying that's where my impression came from. Thanks for replying!
In Pipelining in psql (PostgreSQL 18)
I really want to use pipelining for our "em.flush" of sending all INSERTs & UPDATEs to the db as part of a transaction, b/c my initial prototyping showed a 3-6x increase: https://joist-orm.io/blog/initial-pipelining-benchmark/ If you're not in a transaction, afaiu pipelining is not as applicable/useful b/c any SQL statement failing in the pipeline fails all other queries after it, and imo it would suck for separate/unrelated web requests that "share a pipeline" to have one request fail the others -- but for a single txn/single request, these semantics are what you expect anyway. Unfortunately in the TypeScript ecosystem, the node-pg package/driver doesn't support pipelining yet, instead this "didn't quite hit mainstream adoption and now the author is AWOL" driver does: https://github.com/porsager/postgres I've got a branch to convert our
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TypeScript ORM to postgres.js solely for this "send all our INSERTs/UPDATEs/DELETEs in parallel" perf benefit, and have some great stats so far: https://github.com/joist-orm/joist-orm/pull/1373#issuecommen... But it's not "must have" for us atm, so haven't gotten time to rebase/ship/etc...hoping to rebase & land the PR by eoy...
In Pipelining in psql (PostgreSQL 18)

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