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What if we treated Postgres like SQLite?

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75 points markusw | 1 comments | 22 Sep 25 13:29 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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nu11ptr ◴[22 Sep 25 15:55 UTC] No.45335239[source]▶
You can, just embed it in your Go app:

https://github.com/fergusstrange/embedded-postgres

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tptacek ◴[22 Sep 25 15:58 UTC] No.45335287[source]▶
This just runs Postgres as a process, right?
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1. nu11ptr ◴[22 Sep 25 15:59 UTC] No.45335295[source]▶
Yes, but it embeds it in your executable so it is transparent to the end user.

UPDATE: Actually, I see it is downloaded (and I think cached?). I can't recall if you can embed as an option or not.