[infogulch]

> To realize the full potential of ... EdgeQL efficiently, we must squeeze every last bit of functionality out of PostgreSQL's implementation

> That said, EdgeDB, the implementation, and EdgeQL, the language and the model, are different, and we encourage research into alternative EdgeQL implementations. We'll be releasing the formal EdgeQL spec and the graph-relational model whitepaper to make this easier.

Has the mentioned spec and model whitepaper been released?

[1st1]

Not yet. Our reference documentation is extremely thorough though, an implementor of an alternative backend should be able to use it.