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Embeddable Postgres with real-time, reactive bindings.

36 mentions on Hacker News by 29 people: 10 stories, 26 comments · first 2024-02-23 · latest 2026-10-13

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    PGlite: Embeddable Postgres with real-time, reactive bindings
    story by saikatsg · 2026-10-13 · 0 comments
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    PGLite: Embeddable Postgres with real-time, reactive bindings
    story by theanonymousone · 2026-09-04 · 0 comments
  3. …compiling to wasm so you can embed it in the browser too, which is what powers pgrust.com [0] https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite [1] https://pgrust.com/
    comment by malisper · 2026-08-07 · in Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD
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    Prepopulated FS for PGlite
    story by tdrz · 2026-05-19 · 0 comments
  5. …you link to it and run as a single program) There's even a draft PR to do this, but it became stale https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite/pull/842 Right now what exists is, grabbing the pglite wasm and running it on native code on wasi…
    comment by nextaccountic · 2026-04-11 · in PGLite Evangelism
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    PGlite: Embeddable Postgres
    story by KolmogorovComp · 2026-02-02 · 0 comments
  7. …wazero + sqlite could still be cross portable which is super fascinating What are your thoughts on https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite (postgres in wasm)? Also what were the goal behind a pure golang solution via wazero + wasm sqlite as…
    comment by Imustaskforhelp · 2025-12-09 · in Epsilon: A WASM virtual machine written in Go
  8. …help out who has compiled the postgis extension and is familiar with WASM. You can help out here. https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite/pull/807
    comment by DonnyV · 2025-12-04 · in PGlite – Embeddable Postgres
  9. …embed PGLite into my Go CLI with a WASM runtime and use PGLite as a replacement for SQLite. https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite/issues/89 makes it sound like there's "third-party" bindings for Rust. Is there any interest in "official"…
    comment by bbkane · 2025-12-04 · in PGlite – Embeddable Postgres
  10. Yes! I (experimentally) compiled and packaged it for react-native. Postgres on iOS and Android https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite/pull/774
    comment by evelant · 2025-12-04 · in PGlite – Embeddable Postgres
  11. …HTTP API. This integrates with CDNs for highly-scalable data delivery. electric-sql/pglite: https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite : > Embeddable Postgres with real-time, reactive bindings. "Using Postgres for Everything"…
    comment by westurner · 2025-10-29 · in Hosting SQLite Databases on GitHub Pages (2021)
  12. …I could add into a golang [1] or python app and have running like sqlite. OK, still hoping...! [1] https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite/issues/89
    comment by xarope · 2025-09-23 · in What if we treated Postgres like SQLite?
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    PGlite – embeddable Postgres with real-time, reactive bindings
    story by microflash · 2025-08-28 · 0 comments
  14. See also https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite (REPL at https://pglite.dev/repl/ ) (Previously discussed 7 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39477457 )
    comment by baq · 2024-10-15 · in Sqlite3 WebAssembly
  15. …a zip file). You could certainly embed PostgreSQL in a jar and you can do something similar to this https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite I don’t think there’s that much interest, but it is doable. EDIT:…
    comment by epcoa · 2024-10-14 · in Huly – Open-source project management platform
  16. I'd like to see more of something like this https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite in combination with a redis/valkey compatible API and then you could still have it run out of the box, but allow folks to point to external servers too for…
    comment by johnny22 · 2024-10-14 · in Huly – Open-source project management platform
  17. You can now run Wasm builds of PostgreSQL that will get you everything you like about SQLite. https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite
    comment by sitkack · 2024-09-10 · in Show HN: DBOS transact – Ultra-lightweight durable execution in Python
  18. Check out https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite , which this is built with.
    comment by davidgomes · 2024-08-13 · in Postgres.new: In-browser Postgres with an AI interface
  19. …( https://github.com/supabase-community/postgres-new ): The frontend. Apache 2.0 * PGlite ( https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite ): A WASM build of Postgres. Apache 2.0 * pg-gateway ( https://github.com/supabase-community/pg-gateway ):…
    comment by kiwicopple · 2024-08-12 · in Postgres.new: In-browser Postgres with an AI interface
  20. …on a desktop just expand the window 2/ you're on safari, which doesn't have support for OPFS yet: https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite/pull/130
    comment by kiwicopple · 2024-08-12 · in Postgres.new: In-browser Postgres with an AI interface
  21. …source. A huge shout-out to the Electric team who have been a pleasure to build with. [0] PGLite: https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite [1] Postgres-wasm: https://supabase.com/blog/postgres-wasm [2] Electric: https://electric-sql.com/ [3]…
    comment by kiwicopple · 2024-08-12 · in Postgres.new
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    Show HN: PGlite – in-browser WASM Postgres with pgvector and live sync
    story by samwillis · 2024-08-12 · 108 comments
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    Postgres.new: In-browser Postgres with an AI interface
    story by kiwicopple · 2024-08-12 · 106 comments
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    Show HN: PGLite – PostgreSQL in the Browser
    story by haxzie · 2024-07-28 · 0 comments
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    Show HN: Dynamically loaded extensions in Postgres in the browser
    story by varik77 · 2024-07-12 · 0 comments
  26. …in-memory. Doesn't solve your testing-data question, but it'll save you from spinning up a new DB. https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite/ https://github.com/electric-sql/postgres-wasm
    comment by AlexErrant · 2024-06-17 · in How to test without mocking
  27. check pglite project: https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite
    comment by avinassh · 2024-05-30 · in Show HN: Serverless Postgres
  28. …- Row Zero | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39551064 - PGLite | https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite
    comment by csjh · 2024-05-26 · in LO – simple WASM native language
  29. Solving this is high on my list with PGlite ( https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite ). I have a bunch of iteas/thoughts that I hope to get to at some point (IVM, streaming queries, result diffs). When PGlite (or SQLite) is used with…
    comment by samwillis · 2024-05-20 · in Using Postgres for Everything
  30. …this limitation. I also have a few other ideas around how to make supper fast testing possible. http://github.com/electric-sql/pglite
    comment by samwillis · 2024-04-19 · in Setting up PostgreSQL for running integration tests
  31. …any Docker image on WebAssembly platforms. Anything specific you'd like to see? Happy hacking! [1] https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite
    comment by n2d4 · 2024-04-07 · in Show HN: I open-sourced the in-memory PostgreSQL I built at work for E2E tests
  32. …databases. Anything specific you'd like to see? [1] https://supabase.com/blog/postgres-wasm [2] https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite
    comment by n2d4 · 2024-04-04 · in Pgmock: In-memory Postgres for unit/E2E tests
  33. …but there are various epheremal postgres scripts, plus this could be promising for node stuff https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite if it works out. I'd imagine if this does work out we'll see the same kind of builds for other runtimes as…
    comment by johnny22 · 2024-03-20 · in Soul: A SQLite REST and Realtime Server
  34. …you don't actually have to touch/know anything about. And they just rebuilt postgres on pure WASM ( https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite ). It's just cool to think that maybe you don't have to do design all of these intricate REST apis…
    comment by obeavs · 2024-03-07 · in The Cell Programming Language
  35. …+ https://github.com/zonkyio/embedded-postgres or through WASM: https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite
    comment by alright2565 · 2024-02-28 · in Testcontainers
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    PGlite – Postgres in WASM
    story by samuba · 2024-02-23 · 17 comments