Hacker News Reader

It's impressive that the entire thing is in pl/pgsql (apart from parsing).

Have you considered any other implementation strategies (C native extension, any other pl/* or maybe running an out of PostgreSQL process which does GraphQL to SQL compilation)?

View on HN

Yes! We've been exploring https://github.com/tcdi/pgx internally so we'd be able to re-work the hotspots in rust.

We haven't decided to go that route yet but its been incredibly easy to work with & I'm psyched about what options it could open up like:

- Stateless requests (no schema cache)

- Subscriptions (via a background worker)

Reply on news.ycombinator.com