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Pgrx: Build Postgres Extensions with Rust github.com

levkk5 hours ago

Amazing project that spawned entire companies. We used it to build postgresml[0] and most Postgres extensions are built on top of it these days.

[0] https://github.com/postgresml/postgresml

pratio4 hours ago

Amazing, I didn't know this existed.

K0nserv3 hours ago

I built https://github.com/k0nserv/plid with Pgrx and had a great time. I did have to scale back some of the magic (dropping derive PostgresType etc), but even so the support pgrx provides is excellent. I also talked to the maintainers a bit in discord and they were super helpful.

The one downside of custom extensions is that you aren’t, AFAIK, able to use them with many hosted Postgres installs, notably AWS RDS.

Wicheran hour ago

Or rather – one of the downsides of many hosted Postgres installs, notably AWS RDS, is that you're not able to use the extensions you want.

K0nservan hour ago

Indeed, that's a much better formulation.

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