Usually I shy away from such kind of extensions, because DBAs don't like to have them around, and stored procedures are anyway type safe and JIT compiled.<p>Anyway, kudos for making it available.
Previously: PL/Rust 1.0: now a trusted language for Postgres (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35501065">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35501065</a>)<p>It is now available on RDS, too.
It’s hard to feel enthused by this when there’s been no traction for nearly a year now on the project.<p>PG17 support was promised last July but has yet to materialize.<p>I know OSS authors owe us nothing and it’s their choice to do what they will, but it does make it hard for others to want to embrace these projects when they stagnate.
Does it compile to wasm or otherwise sandbox the Rust binary?<p>If not, how can it be "trusted" if Rust has unsafe escapes that can read and write arbitrary memory? (And also, the Rust compiler has known soundness issues that makes it possible to run unsafe code in safe Rust,
Works well in RDS… but it’s an absolute nightmare to dockerize and set up locally. I really wish the team would have a much cleaner guide for how to do this.