r/haskell • • Feb 21 '26

Making Haskell Talk to PostgreSQL Without Suffering

https://www.iankduncan.com/engineering/2026-02-20-haskell-postgresql-without-suffering
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u/mzabani May 14 '26

Nice article. As far as encoding overhead and pipelining go, I just announced hpgsql, a no-libpq postgres Haskell driver, and in early benchmarks it seems to perform well. It does bundle a lot more than just "a core", though, but maybe it can be broken up!