pgrx
Shares rank 8 of 14 Postgres extensions by recommenders
People recommend it for building Postgres extensions in Rust, citing active maintenance and few memory bugs; one critic notes it cannot support expanded shared memory.
People recommend it for building Postgres extensions in Rust, citing active maintenance and few memory bugs; one critic notes it cannot support expanded shared memory.
11 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 9
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 82%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 9 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 4.5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Actively maintained and gaining momentum
“Pgrx is trucking right along, and gaining speed at the moment.”
Comment from 28 Apr 2026 in “Pgrx: Build Postgres Extensions with Rust” “pgrx is actively maintained.”
Comment from 28 Apr 2026 in “Pgrx: Build Postgres Extensions with Rust” Helpful, responsive maintainers and support
“The maintainers for this project are pretty nice all around.”
Comment from 28 Apr 2026 in “Pgrx: Build Postgres Extensions with Rust” “the support pgrx provides is excellent”
Comment from 28 Apr 2026 in “Pgrx: Build Postgres Extensions with Rust” Strong Rust project with wide adoption
“Once in a while projects like pgrx, or xous come along that really beat the pack as far as Rust projects are concerned”
Comment from 18 Jan 2026 in “Xous Operating System” “adoption of pgrx, durable execution becoming popular - good things!”
Comment from 6 Jun 2026 in “pg_durable: Microsoft open sources in-database durable execution” “Amazing project that spawned entire companies.”
Comment from 28 Apr 2026 in “Pgrx: Build Postgres Extensions with Rust” - Comment from 14 Dec 2025 in “Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)”
Other Postgres extensions people recommend
The four most recommended other Postgres extensions, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
See all 14 Postgres extensions, rankedWhat people said
All 13 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“C is much better integrated into Postgres, doesn't require pgrx.”
“PGRX can't physically support expanded shared memory due to Rust being very strict with custom allocators.”
“adoption of pgrx, durable execution becoming popular - good things!”
“Pgrx is trucking right along, and gaining speed at the moment.”
“pgrx is actively maintained.”
“Number of memory unsafety and race conditions I've had to debug in production in a year of use: zero.”
“The maintainers for this project are pretty nice all around.”
“the support pgrx provides is excellent”
“Amazing, I didn't know this existed.”
“Amazing project that spawned entire companies.”
“Once in a while projects like pgrx, or xous come along that really beat the pack as far as Rust projects are concerned”
“a nice custom pgrx extension can save massive amounts of time”
“using the excellent pgrx[1] project”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.