Fearless Extension Development With Rust and PGRX
Wednesday, October 23 at 16:20–17:10
Room: Ilissos
I’ve been working with Postgres since 2010, and over the years there have been many times when I’ve hit functionality or performance barriers and wanted to extend PostgreSQL to do new things.
This presented a problem for me: I knew I needed to use C, but as someone who didn’t have years of professional experience writing code for production this felt error-prone and daunting.
Enter PGRX, which allows users to create extensions which interface with the PostgreSQL C API from Rust. It’s safe, fast and easy; giving all the benefits of a modern language and developer experience while helping to protect your database from the horrors of undefined behavior.
