Drivers

The list below are PostgreSQL drivers (also referred to as “client libraries”) that developers can use to interface with PostgreSQL from various programming languages. The list is alphabetized by programming language, and also indicates if the driver is based on libpq.

Driver	Language	License	Uses libpq?
libpq	C	PostgreSQL	Yes
ODBC	C	LGPLv2	Yes
libpqxx	C++	BSD 3-Clause	Yes
QPSQL	C++ (Qt)	LGPLv3	Yes
pgfe	C++	zlib	Yes
OZO	C++	PostgreSQL	Yes
npgsql	C#	PostgreSQL	No
Postmodern	Common Lisp	zlib and PostgreSQL	No
crystal-pg	Crystal	BSD 3-Clause	No
Postgrex	Elixir	Apache 2	No
emacs-libpq	Emacs Lisp	GPLv3	Yes
epgsql	Erlang	BSD 3-Clause	No
pgo	Erlang	Apache 2.0	No
pq	Go	MIT	No
pgx	Go	MIT	No
go-pg	Go	BSD 2-Clause	No
HDBC	Haskell	BSD 3-Clause	Yes
postgresql-simple	Haskell	BSD 3-Clause	Yes
JDBC	Java	BSD 2-Clause	No
R2DBC	Java	Apache 2.0	No
node-postgres	JavaScript	MIT	Optional
postgres.js	JavaScript	The Unlicense	No
pgmoon	Lua	MIT	No
DBD::Pg	Perl	Artistic	Yes
php-pgsql	PHP	PHPv3.0.1	Yes
PDO_PGSQL	PHP	PHPv3.0.1	Yes
ext-pq	PHP	BSD 2-Clause	Yes
Pomm	PHP	MIT	Yes
psycopg2	Python (CPython only)	LGPLv3	Yes
asyncpg	Python	Apache 2	No
pg8000	Python	BSD 3-Clause	No
psycopg2cffi	Python, PyPy	LGPLv3	Yes
RPostgreSQL	R	GPLv2	Yes
ruby-pg	Ruby	BSD 2-Clause	Yes
rust-postgres	Rust	MIT	No
PostgresClientKit	Swift	Apache 2	No
PostgresNIO	Swift	MIT	No
postgresql-client	TypeScript	MIT	No