pgrx mit Homebrew, pacman installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• cargo-pgrx

Projektgeschichte

The project was originally known as pgx and later adopted the pgrx name, with its Cargo command becoming cargo-pgrx and its default home moving from ~/.pgx to ~/.pgrx. It is now maintained under the PostgreSQL Central Foundation organization.

The project grew into a workspace of Rust crates covering PostgreSQL bindings, extension APIs, SQL generation, testing, packaging, and the cargo-pgrx development command.

Adoptionsgeschichte

pgrx is distributed as Rust crates, while cargo-pgrx is installed as a Cargo subcommand; system packages including Homebrew and Arch's cargo-pgrx package provide additional installation paths. The framework supports extension development and testing across multiple PostgreSQL major versions.

Wie es verwendet wird

Developers install cargo-pgrx, run cargo pgrx init to configure or build supported PostgreSQL installations, create an extension with cargo pgrx new, and use run, test, schema, install, and package commands throughout development.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

pgrx gives Rust developers a package-native route into PostgreSQL's C-oriented extension ABI. Its combination of procedural macros, generated SQL schemas, PostgreSQL version management, packaging, and integrated testing makes it both a framework and a specialized build toolchain.

Zeitleiste

• 2022: The project announced its rename from pgx to pgrx and renamed its Cargo command and home directory.
• Present: pgrx supports a multi-crate Rust extension framework and managed development environments for multiple PostgreSQL releases.

Related projects

• pgrx builds on Rust and Cargo while targeting PostgreSQL's extension APIs. cargo-pgrx integrates with PostgreSQL tools such as pg_config, initdb, psql, and pg_regress.

Quellen

• Official cargo-pgrx documentation: https://github.com/pgcentralfoundation/pgrx/blob/develop/cargo-pgrx/README.md
• Official rename record: https://github.com/pgcentralfoundation/pgrx/issues/1106
• Official repository: https://github.com/pgcentralfoundation/pgrx