---
id: 'serverless-drivers'
title: 'Serverless drivers'
description: 'Connect to your Postgres database from a serverless environment'
subtitle: 'Choose a driver for connecting to your Postgres database from a serverless environment.'
---

Learn how to connect to your Postgres database from a serverless environment. The driver you use depends on which runtime your code runs in.

[supabase-js](/docs/reference/javascript/introduction) is an isomorphic JavaScript client that uses the [auto-generated REST API](/docs/guides/api), so it works in any environment that supports HTTPS connections. This API has a built-in [connection pooler](/docs/guides/database/connecting-to-postgres/pooling-and-limits#how-connection-pooling-works) and can serve thousands of simultaneous requests, which suits serverless workloads.

If you connect with a Postgres client instead, use the [shared pooler in transaction mode](/docs/guides/database/connecting-to-postgres#pooler-transaction-mode), then [configure your client](/docs/guides/database/connecting-to-postgres#configure-your-client) for pool size, prepared statements, and SSL. Those three settings are what most serverless connection problems come down to.

## Vercel Edge Functions

Vercel's [Edge runtime](https://vercel.com/docs/functions/runtimes/edge-runtime) runs on the [V8 engine](https://v8.dev/) and exposes a limited set of Web Standard APIs.

Start from a deploy template, or configure the connection yourself.

### Quickstart

Choose one of these Vercel Deploy Templates. They use the [Vercel Deploy Integration](https://vercel.com/integrations/supabase) to configure your connection strings as environment variables on your Vercel project.

<div>
  <div className="grid grid-cols-12 gap-6 not-prose">
    <Link
      href="https://supabase.link/nextjs-with-supabase-starter"
      className="col-span-12 md:col-span-6 xl:col-span-4"
      passHref
    >
      <GlassPanel title="supabase-js" hasLightIcon={true} showIconBg={true}>
        A Next.js App Router template configured with cookie-based auth using Supabase, TypeScript
        and Tailwind CSS.
      </GlassPanel>
    </Link>
    <Link
      href="https://supabase.link/nextjs-supabase-kysely"
      className="col-span-12 md:col-span-6 xl:col-span-4"
      passHref
    >
      <GlassPanel title="Kysely" hasLightIcon={true} showIconBg={true}>
        Basic Next.js template that uses Supabase as the database and Kysely as the query builder.
      </GlassPanel>
    </Link>
  </div>
</div>

### Manual configuration

1. In the Supabase Dashboard, click [Connect](/dashboard/project/_?showConnect=true&method=transaction) and copy the URI from the **Transaction pooler** section.
2. Replace the password placeholder with your database password.
3. Add the suffix `?workaround=supabase-pooler.vercel` to the URI.
4. Save the result as the `POSTGRES_URL` environment variable.

```txt .env.local
POSTGRES_URL="postgresql://postgres.[PROJECT-REF]:[YOUR-PASSWORD]@[POOLER-HOST]:6543/postgres?workaround=supabase-pooler.vercel"
```

<Tabs scrollable defaultActiveId="drizzle" type="underlined" size="small">

<TabPanel id="drizzle" label="Drizzle">

```ts lib/drizzle.ts
import { sql } from '@vercel/postgres'
import { InferInsertModel, InferSelectModel } from 'drizzle-orm'
import { pgTable, serial, text, timestamp, uniqueIndex } from 'drizzle-orm/pg-core'
import { drizzle } from 'drizzle-orm/vercel-postgres'

export const UsersTable = pgTable(
  'users',
  {
    id: serial('id').primaryKey(),
    name: text('name').notNull(),
    email: text('email').notNull(),
    image: text('image').notNull(),
    createdAt: timestamp('createdAt').defaultNow().notNull(),
  },
  (users) => {
    return {
      uniqueIdx: uniqueIndex('unique_idx').on(users.email),
    }
  }
)

export type User = InferSelectModel<typeof UsersTable>
export type NewUser = InferInsertModel<typeof UsersTable>

// Connect to Vercel Postgres
export const db = drizzle(sql)
```

</TabPanel>
<TabPanel id="kysely" label="Kysely">

```ts lib/kysely.ts
import { createKysely } from '@vercel/postgres-kysely'
import { ColumnType, Generated } from 'kysely'

interface UserTable {
  // Columns that are generated by the database should be marked
  // using the `Generated` type. This way they are automatically
  // made optional in inserts and updates.
  id: Generated<number>
  name: string
  email: string
  image: string

  // You can specify a different type for each operation (select, insert and
  // update) using the `ColumnType<SelectType, InsertType, UpdateType>`
  // wrapper. Here we define a column `createdAt` that is selected as
  // a `Date`, can optionally be provided as a `string` in inserts and
  // can never be updated:
  createdAt: ColumnType<Date, string | undefined, never>
}

// Keys of this interface are table names.
export interface Database {
  users: UserTable
}

export const db = createKysely<Database>()
export { sql } from 'kysely'
```

</TabPanel>
</Tabs>

## Cloudflare Workers

Cloudflare's Workers runtime also uses the [V8 engine](https://v8.dev/), but it provides polyfills for a subset of Node.js APIs and the [TCP Sockets API](https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/runtime-apis/tcp-sockets/). That gives you three options:

### Drivers [#cloudflare-workers-drivers]

- [supabase-js](https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/databases/native-integrations/supabase/)
- [Postgres.js](https://github.com/porsager/postgres?tab=readme-ov-file#cloudflare-workers-support)
- [node-postgres](https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/tutorials/postgres/)

## Supabase Edge Functions

Supabase Edge Functions use the [Deno runtime](https://deno.com/), which has native support for TCP connections. You can choose any of these clients:

### Drivers [#supabase-edge-functions-drivers]

- [supabase-js](/docs/guides/functions/connect-to-postgres#using-supabase-js)
- [Deno Postgres driver](/docs/guides/functions/connect-to-postgres#using-a-postgres-client)
- [Postgres.js](https://github.com/porsager/postgres)
- [Drizzle](/docs/guides/functions/connect-to-postgres#using-drizzle)