Turso Announces Rewriting Postgres in Rust

glcst · x · 2026-07-16

Turso announced that it is rewriting Postgres using Rust, aiming to build the "LLVM" of the database world. Previously, Turso successfully rewrote SQLite within a year, maintaining compatibility while adding features like MVCC, typing, and materialized views. During the SQLite rewrite, the team realized that a database's core features are dictated by its underlying architecture, prompting them to apply this reconstruction approach to Postgres.

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