PostgreSQL Embedded

Install and run a PostgreSQL database locally on Linux, MacOS or Windows. PostgreSQL can be bundled with your application, or downloaded on demand.

This library provides an embedded-like experience for PostgreSQL similar to what you would have with SQLite. This is accomplished by downloading and installing PostgreSQL during runtime. There is also a "bundled" feature that when enabled, will download the PostgreSQL installation archive at compile time, include it in your binary and install from the binary version at runtime. In either case, PostgreSQL will run in a separate process space.

Features

• installing and running PostgreSQL
• running PostgreSQL on ephemeral ports
• async and blocking API
• bundling the PostgreSQL archive in an executable
• dynamic version resolution
• ability to configure PostgreSQL startup options
• URL based configuration
• choice of native-tls vs rustls

Examples

Asynchronous API

use postgresql_embedded::{PostgreSQL, Result};

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> Result<()> {
    let mut postgresql = PostgreSQL::default();
    postgresql.setup().await?;
    postgresql.start().await?;

    let database_name = "test";
    postgresql.create_database(database_name).await?;
    postgresql.database_exists(database_name).await?;
    postgresql.drop_database(database_name).await?;

    postgresql.stop().await
}

Synchronous API

use postgresql_embedded::Result;
use postgresql_embedded::blocking::PostgreSQL;

fn main() -> Result<()> {
    let mut postgresql = PostgreSQL::default();
    postgresql.setup()?;
    postgresql.start()?;

    let database_name = "test";
    postgresql.create_database(database_name)?;
    postgresql.database_exists(database_name)?;
    postgresql.drop_database(database_name)?;

    postgresql.stop()
}

Information

During the build process, when the bundled feature is enabled, the PostgreSQL binaries are downloaded and included in the resulting binary. The version of the PostgreSQL binaries is determined by the POSTGRESQL_VERSION environment variable. If the POSTGRESQL_VERSION environment variable is not set, then postgresql_archive::LATEST will be used to determine the version of the PostgreSQL binaries to download.

When downloading the theseus PostgreSQL binaries, either during build, or at runtime, the GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable can be set to a GitHub personal access token to increase the rate limit for downloading the PostgreSQL binaries. The GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable is not required.

At runtime, the PostgreSQL binaries are cached by default in the following directories:

• Unix: $HOME/.theseus/postgresql
• Windows: %USERPROFILE%\.theseus\postgresql

Performance can be improved by using a specific version of the PostgreSQL binaries (e.g. =16.4.0). After the first download, the PostgreSQL binaries will be cached and reused for subsequent runs. Further, the repository will no longer be queried to calculate the version match.

Feature flags

postgresql_embedded uses feature flags to address compile time and binary size uses.

The following features are available:

Safety

This crate uses #![forbid(unsafe_code)] to ensure everything is implemented in 100% safe Rust.

License

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE or https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

Notes

Uses PostgreSQL binaries from theseus-rs/postgresql-binaries by default.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.