zonkyio/embedded-postgres-binaries
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Lightweight bundles of PostgreSQL binaries with reduced size intended for testing purposes.
7 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 0 stories, 7 comments · first 2021-11-18 · latest 2025-09-23
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…you a database URL: https://github.com/kketch/tinypg It downloads pg binaries from this project: https://github.com/zonkyio/embedded-postgres-binaries . There are other similar projects listed on that page that provide this for Java, Go,…
comment by kketch · 2025-09-23 · in What if we treated Postgres like SQLite? -
You can just run postgres natively: https://github.com/zonkyio/embedded-postgres-binaries + https://github.com/zonkyio/embedded-postgres or through WASM: https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite
comment by alright2565 · 2024-02-28 · in Testcontainers -
…discouraged for most use-cases). Can I use this in any way without a global system state? Like with https://github.com/zonkyio/embedded-postgres-binaries or similar that don't have a global install? Or with a distro that supports multiple…
comment by SahAssar · 2023-11-29 · in Show HN: pgxman – npm for Postgres extensions -
You may be interested in this https://github.com/zonkyio/embedded-postgres-binaries I've been using this for test runners in Node and Go for a while now and it's been quite painless. Would be nice to have wider language support though
comment by wild_egg · 2023-11-24 · in Two Tier Architectures Are Anachronistic [video] -
Pretty sure they are talking about https://github.com/zonkyio/embedded-postgres-binaries . It's not exactly embedded postgresql since it still runs the full postgresql in a separate process but it is close enough for most purposes.
comment by SahAssar · 2023-02-26 · in Oops, You Wrote a Database -
Nice, this seems a lot simpler than I thought. Nice tip on embedded-postgres-binaries ( https://github.com/zonkyio/embedded-postgres-binaries ).
comment by hamandcheese · 2022-09-14 · in When to use Bazel? -
…us. It's amazing how fast and light Postgres runs for these use cases! 1 - https://steampipe.io 2 - https://github.com/zonkyio/embedded-postgres-binaries
comment by nathanwallace · 2021-11-18 · in Ephemeral Postgres Databases