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zero-postgres

A high-performance PostgreSQL client

Owned by elbaro.

13 releases (7 breaking)

Uses new Rust 2024

new 0.8.0 Jan 21, 2026
0.7.0 Jan 11, 2026
0.6.0 Jan 10, 2026
0.5.0 Jan 10, 2026
0.1.0 Dec 25, 2025

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MIT license

435KB
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zero-postgres

A high-performance PostgreSQL client library for Rust.

API Reference (docs.rs) | User Guide

Python binding: pyro-postgres.

Feature Flags

  • sync (default) - Synchronous API
  • tokio (default) - Asynchronous API using tokio
  • sync-tls - TLS support for Synchronous API (experimental)
  • tokio-tls - TLS support for Asynchronous API (experimental)

Benchmark

Inserting 10,000 rows using prepared statements (average of 10 iterations):

Library Avg Time (ms)
zero-postgres (sync) 250.35
zero-postgres (async) 269.32
tokio-postgres 398.90
postgres (sync) 422.61

Run benchmarks: cargo run --release --example bench_zero_sync

More tests and proper benchmarks will be added via pyro-postgres.

Status

  • todo: cleanup, more tests, more data conversion

Dependencies

~12–30MB
~327K SLoC