newsPostgres Weekly·21 Oct 2026·PGRun

PGX: Run Thousands of Throwaway Databases in One Process

PGX runs thousands of isolated throwaway Postgres-compatible databases in one Rust process, each cloned from a template in milliseconds, aimed at agent sandboxes and per-PR tests. Beta, dev use only.

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From the team behind pgbot, and built upon a Rust reimplementation of Postgres, PGX hosts large numbers of isolated databases in one process, each cloned from a template in milliseconds, for agent sandboxes and per-PR tests. Beta, AGPL-licensed, with fsync off, so for dev use only. (GitHub repo.)