pgrust
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“The more tangible example for me around LLM enabling what's previously long if not impossible tasks: pgrust.”
“I found this post by the author to be a good example of architectural changes in pgrust”
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“The WebAssembly demo that runs in your browser is a really neat touch”
Caveats and dissent
“we don't have the commits we need to audit”
“pgrust appears to be at best misleading, at worst vibeslop”
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“the people (person?) behind pgrust has not committed to releasing the offending code”
“pgrust was removed from ClickBench for cheating the benchmark in three different ways”
Often compared with
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“pgrust on a c6a.2xl is faster than ClickHouse running on a c6a.metal”
“If you can find anything suspicious in the binary, let me know, and I'm happy to dig in”
“That's enough to run all the queries on ClickBench”
“you can check the binary we submitted yourself”
“The engine supports a narrow subset of SQL”
“You'll find it's just as fast as we claim it is”
Threads where it came up
- We should be more ambitious with the software we build 10 mentions
- Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD 7 mentions
- Remove pgrust: the entry is cheating (per-query kernels and result caching) 4 mentions
- Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests 4 mentions
- Postgres 19 delayed after AI reviewers find more bugs than humans can fix 2 mentions
- Why Don't People Use Formal Methods? 2 mentions
Data: pgrust.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 22
“we don't have the commits we need to audit”
“pgrust appears to be at best misleading, at worst vibeslop”
“the people (person?) behind pgrust has not committed to releasing the offending code”
“pgrust was removed from ClickBench for cheating the benchmark in three different ways”
“it is interesting to see an open source system that beats ClickHouse on ClickBench”
“the project has 3 mega commits of claude slop”
“If the Ai came back to me with a 1600x improvement (still in pgrust readme), I would be highly suspicious of the Ai and the code it wrote”
“Postgres rewirte in Rust, it has 3 versions looks like each one generated from scratch”
“The more tangible example for me around LLM enabling what's previously long if not impossible tasks: pgrust.”
“Please consider comparing pg_clickhouse to pgrust.”
^For context, this is Greg Smith, the author of Postgres 9.0 High Performance[0]. That book was my first introduction to Postgres [0] https://www.amazon.com/dp/184951030X
“does having it in pure rust, opens possibility of embedding pgrust directly into binary, making it an alternative to SQLite/turso?”
“it's kind of wrong to port in such a direct way and change the license”
“That's a lot of token momentum!”
“I found this post by the author to be a good example of architectural changes in pgrust”
“I tried pgrust on ClickBench recently, but it didn't work at all”
“I tried pgrust on ClickBench recently, but it didn't work at all”
“naming it something like pgrust[1] makes sense for ease of discovery”
“The WebAssembly demo that runs in your browser is a really neat touch”
“This is impressive - but is a license change”
“I am concerned about the quality. Even a cursory skim of the code makes the code appear asinine.”
“there's someone already doing this: https://github.com/malisper/pgrust”