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Re:Postgres WASM by fcoury on Monday October 03, 2022 @12:59PM (#33070306)
Interesting. I have written a translation layer for the MongoDB wire protocol [0] that persists to PostgreSQL. I am wondering if I could make this layer also compile to wasm and run in the browser.

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[0] http://oxidedb.com

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Re:Postgres WASM by burggraf on Monday October 03, 2022 @01:09PM (#33070459)
Wow, this is awesome! So as I understand it, this uses Postgres and JSON fields to emulate the features of MongoDB, sort of as an abstraction?
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Re:Postgres WASM by fcoury on Monday October 03, 2022 @01:33PM (#33070854)
Thank you! It's exactly that: basically you don't need to keep an additional MongoDB instance if you already use and maintain a Postgres server somewhere.

I translate the JSON-based query interface into the corresponding SQL statements, leveraging the excellent JSON support that PostgreSQL offers.

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