Connect a Rust application to Neon
Set up a Neon project in seconds and connect from a Rust application
This guide describes how to create a Neon project and connect to it from a Rust application.
Create a Neon project
If you do not have one already, create a Neon project. Save your connection string and password. They are required when defining connection settings.
To create a Neon project:
- Navigate to the Projects page in the Neon Console.
- Click New Project.
- Specify your project settings and click Create Project.
Configure the connection
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To run the Rust solution below you have to install the required dependencies. You can do this by running cargo add postgres postgres_openssl openssl. Also, the example provided uses the synchronous postgres crate. If your application is asynchronous and uses tokio, we recommend using the tokio-postgres crate for compatibility with async runtimes.
Add the Neon connection details to your main.rs file, as in the following example:
use postgres::Client;
use openssl::ssl::{SslConnector, SslMethod};
use postgres_openssl::MakeTlsConnector;
use std::error;
fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn error::Error>> {
let builder = SslConnector::builder(SslMethod::tls())?;
let connector = MakeTlsConnector::new(builder.build());
let mut client = Client::connect("postgresql://[user]:[password]@[neon_hostname]/[dbname]?sslmode=require", connector)?;
for row in client.query("SELECT 42", &[])? {
let ret : i32 = row.get(0);
println!("Result = {}", ret);
}
Ok(())
}You can find all of the connection details listed above in the Connection Details widget on the Neon Dashboard. For more information, see Connect from any application.
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