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tlntoday at 3:16 PM1 replyview on HN

I'm using it for a service that has DB dependencies. Instead of using SQLite in tests and PG in production, or spinning up a Postgres container, you use Postgres via pglite.

In my case, the focus is on DX ie faster tests. I load shared database from `pglite-schema.tgz` (~1040ms) instead of running migrations from a fresh DB and then use transaction rollback isolation (~10ms per test).

This is a lot faster and more convenient than spinning up a container. Test runs are 5x faster.

I'm hoping to get this working on a python service soon as well (with py-pglite).


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TheTaytaytoday at 3:52 PM

Thank you for the details. This makes a lot of sense!