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Replacing Protobuf with Rust to go 5 times faster
Forking pg_query.rs to replace Protobuf with bindgen-generated direct C-to-Rust struct mappings, yielding 5x faster query parsing and 10x faster deparsing in PgDog.
By Lev KokotovPgDog Blog

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Originally published by PgDog Blog on Jan 22, 2026.
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