Extending Postgres Capabilities with Rust - Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks

Explore PostgreSQL's extensibility features and learn how to leverage the pgrx crate to author powerful extensions in Rust during this 56-minute conference talk from RustLab. Discover the value of Postgres extensibility and gain hands-on experience as the speaker builds, tests, and deploys a real extension live on stage. Examine a case study demonstrating how a custom Rust PostgreSQL extension simplified a legacy software codebase, improved query performance to billions of rows per second, and provided enhanced flexibility. Gain practical insights into unlocking PostgreSQL's unrealized potential and making database extension development easier, safer, and more enjoyable using Rust.