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Project links

• Homepage
• Package manager page

Commands and aliases

• pgstream

Project history

pgrx developed as a Rust framework and associated Cargo tooling for building PostgreSQL extensions with more idiomatic and safer interfaces than direct use of PostgreSQL's C extension API.

The project is maintained under the PgCentral Foundation organization and combines the pgrx library, procedural macros, generated bindings, examples, tests, and the cargo-pgrx development command.

Adoption history

The maintainers state that pgrx is used in production by many users, while retaining a pre-1.0 version because unresolved safety and ergonomics questions may require breaking changes.

Its development environment supports Linux, macOS, and Windows targets and can manage several PostgreSQL versions from one extension codebase.

How it is used

Users install cargo-pgrx, run `cargo pgrx init` to download or register PostgreSQL installations, create an extension with `cargo pgrx new`, and use commands such as `run`, `test`, and `package` during development.

`cargo pgrx init` creates `${PGRX_HOME}/config.toml`, which records PostgreSQL `pg_config` locations and configurable development ports.

Why package nerds care

pgrx joins the Rust and PostgreSQL ecosystems: cargo-pgrx provides a Cargo-native workflow while the framework exposes PostgreSQL extension facilities through Rust types, macros, and guarded interfaces.

It is notable to package users because installation involves more than placing a binary on PATH: initialization builds or registers PostgreSQL installations and records them under PGRX_HOME.

Timeline

• Pre-1.0 era: The maintainers intentionally retain a pre-1.0 version while safety and ergonomics questions remain.
• Current development: pgrx supports building one extension codebase against multiple supported PostgreSQL major versions.

Related projects

• PostgreSQL provides the extension API and server installations managed by cargo-pgrx.
• Rust, Cargo, rustup, bindgen, and libclang form the principal development toolchain around pgrx.

Sources

• https://github.com/pgcentralfoundation/pgrx#readme — official overview, supported platforms, features, production-use note, and workflow.
• https://github.com/pgcentralfoundation/pgrx/blob/develop/cargo-pgrx/README.md — official cargo-pgrx initialization, configuration, and command documentation.