SeaQL/sea-orm

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🐚 A powerful relational ORM for Rust

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Forks: 735
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 165
Avg merge: 6h 36m
Merged PRs (30d): 8

Dominant language: Rust
License: Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 15, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
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165 open issues indexed

Per-backend column type overrides, e.g. json on mysql / jsonb on postgres Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

SeaQL/sea-orm#3205 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 17, 2026
Re-design `TryGetable` to unify optional value decoding Open

Breaking Change

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

SeaQL/sea-orm#3201 · Opened Sep 15, 2026
[EntityLoader] `EntityLoader::load()::with()` does not work for `self_ref` self references. Open

Area:docs Category:enhancement help-wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

SeaQL/sea-orm#3189 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 31, 2026
Join on EntityLoader `Entity::load().join(LeftJoin, child::Entity)` Open

help-wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

SeaQL/sea-orm#3188 · Opened Aug 29, 2026
Expect GROUP_CONCAT aggregration funciton Open

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SeaQL/sea-orm#3186 · Opened Aug 26, 2026
Nested ActiveModelEx::save() fails to insert a new has_many child with a composite, non-auto-increment primary key Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

SeaQL/sea-orm#3183 · 9 comments · Opened Aug 22, 2026
`ActiveModel::from_json` fails to deserialize TimeDateTimeWithTimezone fields to NotSet when field is missing from JSON payload Open

help-wanted

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

SeaQL/sea-orm#3175 · 8 comments · Opened Aug 17, 2026
Permit passing custom derives to ActiveModelEx Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 56/100

SeaQL/sea-orm#3173 · Opened Aug 13, 2026
Generate entity emits #[sea_orm(ignore)] on citext columns, excluding them from the Entity Open

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SeaQL/sea-orm#3168 · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 9, 2026
Generated columns: write-safety design Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

SeaQL/sea-orm#3162 · Opened Aug 8, 2026
Schema-syncing more complex indexes Open

help-wanted

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 42/100

SeaQL/sea-orm#3157 · Opened Aug 5, 2026
`sea` or `sea-orm-cli` implemented as a standard Cargo subcommand Open

help-wanted

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SeaQL/sea-orm#3151 · Opened Jul 29, 2026
Column reference is ambiguous error occurs when two tables have the same field Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

SeaQL/sea-orm#3142 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 23, 2026
Add support more TLS cryptography libs Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

SeaQL/sea-orm#3137 · Opened Jul 16, 2026
Atomic migrations by default in SQLite Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

SeaQL/sea-orm#3136 · Opened Jul 16, 2026
Sync panics on sqlite named foreign key Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

SeaQL/sea-orm#3132 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 12, 2026
Schema sync discovery: per-table constraint query takes 60–90s each on PostgreSQL 18, deploys take 30–40 minutes Open

2.0 Area:perf

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

SeaQL/sea-orm#3130 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 12, 2026
get_schema_registry / sync breaks "Send" requirement Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

SeaQL/sea-orm#3129 · Opened Jul 11, 2026
Refactor macro implmentions Open

good first issue help-wanted

SeaQL/sea-orm#3119 · 6 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 7, 2026
date_text type used in SQLite not consistently understood by tooling Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

SeaQL/sea-orm#3102 · Opened Jun 30, 2026
sea_orm struggles to support multiple sets of relations between the same two tables Open

2.0

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

SeaQL/sea-orm#3081 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 11, 2026
Generate Active Model from Two Models' Differences Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 42/100

SeaQL/sea-orm#3067 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 25, 2026
Type-safe primary keys Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

SeaQL/sea-orm#3066 · 3 reactions · Opened May 23, 2026
Add select_except Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

SeaQL/sea-orm#3064 · Opened May 20, 2026
Mysql enum with same name gets overwritten Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

SeaQL/sea-orm#3050 · Opened Apr 19, 2026
delete_many() with `exec_with_returning` with `.filter()` won't return the deleted entry Open

help-wanted

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

SeaQL/sea-orm#3046 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 17, 2026
Postgres tsvector/tsquery support Open

help-wanted

SeaQL/sea-orm#3034 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 2, 2026
should `DatabaseConnectionType::MockDatabaseConnection` use `Arc<dyn MockDatabaseTrait>` Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

SeaQL/sea-orm#3013 · Opened Mar 18, 2026
Entity first migration-generation Open

Area:entity-first

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

SeaQL/sea-orm#3008 · 3 comments · 8 reactions · Opened Mar 14, 2026
The function into_model for SelectTwoMany is private Open

needs-info

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

SeaQL/sea-orm#2976 · 5 comments · Opened Mar 2, 2026
Custom ID, Soft Delete, Optimistic Lock & Auto Field Fill Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

SeaQL/sea-orm#2969 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 26, 2026
--entity-format=dense generates logically different code than compact and expanded Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

SeaQL/sea-orm#2962 · 5 comments · Opened Feb 19, 2026
Querying related tables on a linked table fails Open

SeaQL/sea-orm#2959 · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 18, 2026
in entity first schema sync does not sync existing foreign key actions Open

2.0 Area:entity-first

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

SeaQL/sea-orm#2953 · Opened Feb 14, 2026
deep nest load with ModelEx Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

SeaQL/sea-orm#2942 · Opened Feb 4, 2026
Document, deprecate, and remove `SqlErr` Open

2.0

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SeaQL/sea-orm#2940 · 8 comments · Opened Feb 2, 2026
feat: CockroachDB Support Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

SeaQL/sea-orm#2929 · Opened Jan 26, 2026
feat: Add native Cloudflare D1 database driver support Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

SeaQL/sea-orm#2928 · Opened Jan 26, 2026
When using "select_as" in the attribute macro, the column is not found Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

SeaQL/sea-orm#2919 · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 20, 2026
Hide sensitive model fields in logs Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

SeaQL/sea-orm#2903 · Opened Jan 8, 2026
Computed columns Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 28/100

SeaQL/sea-orm#2902 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 8, 2026
db.get_schema_registry("my_crate::entity::*") issue Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

SeaQL/sea-orm#2899 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 6, 2026
[Feature Request] Optimistic Locking Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

SeaQL/sea-orm#2897 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 4, 2026
Support jiff Open

SeaQL/sea-orm#2896 · 3 comments · 16 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 4, 2026
Support Postgres Composite Types Open

help-wanted

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

SeaQL/sea-orm#2895 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 4, 2026
Supporting url::Url fields Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

SeaQL/sea-orm#2894 · Opened Jan 4, 2026
Custom sql drive Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

SeaQL/sea-orm#2892 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 3, 2026
Feature Request: Automatically Track Schema Changes and Generate Migration Code Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

SeaQL/sea-orm#2889 · 6 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Jan 1, 2026
Prelude generation does not include Enums Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

SeaQL/sea-orm#2874 · Opened Dec 24, 2025
Support `time::UtcDateTime` Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

SeaQL/sea-orm#2870 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 23, 2025

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