Comment by logicchains
7 hours ago
> they had to use a Rust-to-C binding library, that uses Protobuf for portability reasons.
That sounds like a performance nightmare, putting Protobuf of all things between the language and Postgres, I'm surprised such a library ever got popular.
> I'm surprised such a library ever got popular.
Because it is not popular.
pg_query (TFA) has ~1 million downloads, the postgres crate has 11 million downloads and the related tokio-postgres crate has over 33 million downloads. The two postgres crates currently see around 50x as much traffic as the (special-purpose) crate from the article.
edit: There is also pq-sys with over 12 million downloads, used by diesel, and sqlx-postgres with over 16 million downloads, used by sqlx.