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PostgreSQL client - pure javascript & libpq with the same API
Last release 4 days ago
30 Sep 2026
Release timing varies
gaps range from 8 days to 7 months
Rarely documented
notes for 9 of the last 60 stable releases
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no release was ever pulled
15 years old
250 releases · first in 2011
Add support for excapeLiteral and escapeIdentifier in both JavaScript and the native bindings
Add support for SSL connections in JavaScript driver
One column per quarter.
Properly handle various PostgreSQL to JavaScript type conversions to avoid data loss:
PostgreSQL | pg@v2.0 JavaScript | pg@v1.0 JavaScript
--------------------------------|----------------
float4 | number (float) | string
float8 | number (float) | string
int8 | string | number (int)
numeric | string | number (float)
decimal | string | number (float)
For more information see https://github.com/brianc/node-postgres/pull/353 If you are unhappy with these changes you can always override the built in type parsing fairly easily.
Make client_encoding configurable and optional
return field metadata on result object: access via result.fields[i].name/dataTypeID
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built in support for JSON data type for PostgreSQL Server @ v9.2.0 or greater
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remove deprecated functionality
pg.connect now requires 3 argumentsStringNothing published for this version
client now emits end when disconnected from back-end server
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add deprecation warnings in prep for v1.0
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