This is very cool. Having to always set up a server is one major downside of Postgres, with cumbersome updates being the second. This solves the first and has potential to help with the second.

Is there a way to compile this as a native library? I imagine some of the work should be reusable.

It's cool that this is possible, is this just for fun or are there good use-cases for this?

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Embeddable (into JS et al)

Everyone is trying to copy DuckDB at this point