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If I suddenly had unlimited resources and attention, I'd really like to provide infrastructure to write trusted functions by running them via a webassembly runt

If I suddenly had unlimited resources and attention, I'd really like to provide infrastructure to write trusted functions by running them via a webassembly runtime, with a small injected safe surface for accessing postgres functionality. That'd make it a lot easier to write trusted PLs in a variety of languages. Still probably needs a bit of per-language sugar on top, but a lot less than doing it from scratch. Edit: Minor grammar fix

bear9628 3y ago
Hehe :) I also have WASM in mind when thinking about future TLE support :)
michelpp 3y ago
I don't know much about it, but I think this has been tried? https://dylibso.com/blog/pg-extism/ https://dylibso.com/blog/pg-extism/ Looking at the repo though it looks like it hasn't been updated in a while.
- nilslice 3y ago
  we're actually working on a new version of this, which _does_ support TLE! if you're interested, please join https://extism.org/discord https://extism.org/discord and we can get you a preview.
- bear9628 3y ago
  Oh wow, that is really cool.
pjmlp 3y ago
Oracle, IBM and Microsoft have been doing that for decades with JVM, CLR and TIMI, yet another use case where Webassembly is a follower.