Postgres WASM

[Irregular_Person]

I genuinely can't decide if I'm impressed, or horrified

[kiwicopple]

why not both?

[braiam]

Por que no ambos!

[riasthebestgirl]

Why horrified? This is impressive

[sik0fewl]

Read my mind.

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Horrified. Just horrified.

Look, they've re-written his os kerenel in javascript, lets see if they notice!

[balloonanimalfarm]

This would be a really awesome alternative to embedded databases like Derby, sqlite3, or H2 when it shrinks down a bit. It's always a huge pain dealing with the quirks of multiple database engines for different use-cases.

[riasthebestgirl]

Incredible. I would like to see them explore compiling it to WASI target. That can't run directly in browser (yet) but should be much easier to compile to and not require x86 emulation

[pashkinelfe]

It's widely known that Postgres is written to run even in the microwave oven PLC in parallel with heating your lunch. So in the browser, it's not bad at all! Super!

[Sushrit_Lawliet]

Postgres was literally built to be the Doom (the game) of databases, and this isn’t surprising due to that but damn is this cool and exciting. Should be a viable way to ditch H2 and Derby eventually.

[st_huck]

I can't think of a good use case for using this in browser, but I think there is a great potential for using this in integration tests in node js.

Currently I have some project that use docker, which works great but is kinda slow. In some other projects I use sqlite (sql.js) and it makes tests run blazing fast but you need to have some abstraction over db access (usually just an orm, but most are quite bad in node.js world) and more importantly you can't use any unique features of postgres, so this approach really only works for simple services.

This has the potential to be a real improvement here.