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Postgres rust rewrite will be a huge thread.
by nurettin 3y ago
Postgres rust rewrite will be a huge thread.
- cdelsolar 3y agoPlease no
- jesperwe 3y agoIt has already started. https://docs.rs/pgx/latest/pgx/ https://docs.rs/pgx/latest/pgx/ Not hard to see path ahead of us similar to Linux's gradual step towards Rust in the kernel.
- tpetry 3y agoPostgres Rust extensions is a completely different topic than rewriting PG in Rust. The problem is that a crash in any extension will take down the full PG worker. So you can havoc the robustness of your PG database with any extension. But with a memory-safe language like Rust which forces you to handle all error cases this can‘t happen anymore.