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But why?

The edge is in general not the users browser.

So you can do a TLS/postgres connection instead of adding additional layers.

Sure you want to probably run a patched pg client/server which has various optimizations to reduce the number of round trips when opening a connection, but that also applies to any HTTP/WebSocket wrapper.

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> So you can do a TLS/postgres connection instead of adding additional layers.

Sure, sometimes you can. But a key use-case for a serverless database is connecting from a serverless compute environment, and not all serverless compute environments support TCP connections.

That's why Neon offers this serverless driver, which supports WebSockets and now also http.

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