[MuffinFlavored]

Dumb question, with all of this newfangled WASM stuff, why couldn't we also bake the Postgres server (and then client) into the code? I know the WASM runtime would need to expose the low-level ability to do filesystem operations, mmap()ing, network sockets, etc.

[maxmcd]

Then you'd need to run and maintain Postgres, which is much more complicated, not just a single database file.

Postgres also can't be embedded (according to some brief googling), so you'd need to run it as a separate process.

[stuaxo]

This would be handy for apps that use Postgres features, that would; nonetheless work in WASM.