node-postgres
and postgres.js
drivers.
There are a few differences between the node-postgres
and postgres.js
drivers that we discovered while using both and integrating them with the Drizzle ORM. For example:
node-postgres
, you can install pg-native
to boost the speed of both node-postgres
and Drizzle by approximately 10%.node-postgres
supports providing type parsers on a per-query basis without globally patching things. For more details, see Types Docs.postgres.js
uses prepared statements by default, which you may need to opt out of.