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Ping Thing

Ping a Neon Serverless Postgres database using a Vercel Edge Function to see the journey your request makes.

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Postgres at the Edge

Edge Functions run closer to the user. This minimizes both the number, and length of network round-trips to and from the database, resulting in lower latency response times.


Your Request

Details of your request made to Neon using an Edge Function.

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How to use Postgres at the Edge

A closer look at how to use Neon's serverless driver with Vercel Edge Functions.

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Neon serverless driver

The serverless driver is a drop in replacement for node-postgres and is suitable for use with Vercel Edge Functions.

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import { neon } from '@neondatabase/serverless';

export default async function handler(req, res) {
    const sql = neon(process.env.DATABASE_URL);
    const response = await sql`SELECT * FROM table_name`;

    return Response.json({
      message: 'A Ok!',
      data: response
    });
}

export const config = {
    runtime: 'edge',
};

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