# Improved performance for Vercel Postgres from Edge Functions

**Published:** July 27, 2023 | **Authors:** Vincent Voyer, Edward Thomson

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> **Note:** This changelog entry is historical. Edge Functions are deprecated for new projects. Use [Vercel Functions](https://vercel.com/docs/functions) with the Node.js runtime and [Fluid compute](https://vercel.com/docs/fluid-compute). Use [Routing Middleware](https://vercel.com/docs/routing-middleware) for request-time routing before a response completes.

> **Note:** Update: As of June 9, 2025 Vercel Postgres was replaced with [Vercel Marketplace Storage integrations](https://vercel.com/marketplace/category/storage), featuring automatic account provisioning and unified billing. [Learn more](https://vercel.com/blog/introducing-the-vercel-marketplace).

The [Vercel Postgres SDK](https://vercel.com/docs/storage) has significantly improved performance for Postgres queries from functions using the Edge Runtime.

The `@vercel/postgres` package has been updated to use the latest version of Neon’s Serverless driver which adds support for SQL-over-HTTP when you use the [sql template literal tag](https://vercel.com/docs/storage#sql). Simple queries that do not require transactions now complete in **~10ms**—up to **a 40% speed increase**.

You do not need to make any changes to your queries to see these improvements, you only need to update to [the latest version of @vercel/postgres](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@vercel/postgres/v/0.4.0) to take advantage of these improvements.

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