Why we rewrote WAL-G for Postgres backups in Rust: Meet WAL-RUS

T1Covered by 1 source · first reported by Databricks / ClickHouse / DuckDB / Supabase / Neon / PlanetScale at 25 Jun, 16:00 UTC

How we built WAL-RUS, an open-source Rust-based Postgres backup tool that reduces virtual memory usage by over 70% compared to WAL-G while maintaining full compatibility.

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• T1Why we rewrote WAL-G for Postgres backups in Rust: Meet WAL-RUSDatabricks / ClickHouse / DuckDB / Supabase / Neon / PlanetScale25 Jun, 16:00