pgrust Rewrites PostgreSQL in Rust, Passes 100% of Test Suite

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community · July 10, 2026

pgrust is an open-source project rewriting PostgreSQL from C to Rust. It now passes all 46,000+ regression tests for PostgreSQL 18.3 and is disk-compatible. Early benchmarks show up to 50% faster transactional workloads and 300x faster analytical queries.

Meridian48 take

While impressive, pgrust is experimental and far from production-ready; the real test will be long-term stability and community adoption.

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