Issue 364 - A way to build Postgres extensions in Rust (10)

PGX: Build Postgres Extensions with Rust — A framework for building Postgres extensions with Rust rather than the C or C++ you might be more used to. Why is this a good thing? Rust is becoming pretty popular in more cutting edge circles lately and the language’s safety features make it a compelling choice.

JSONB: A Container of Types — Bruce reminds us that JSONB columns don’t just have to hold collections like arrays or maps/hashes, you can directly store strings, numbers and booleans too.

Achieve High Availability with PostgreSQL [Whitepaper] — Critical business applications require availability of their backend database cluster. Discover how to setup & deploy enterprise-grade High Availability of up to four 9s. Learn the features and benefits in the Highly Available Postgres Clusters Whitepaper.

How to Find a Postgres Bug Born in 1997 — The tale of discovering a bug hidden away inside Postgres’s documentation or circle type (depending on your point of view) for the past 23 years.

How to SCRAM with pgBouncer — Not only can you see how pgBouncer (the connection pooler) uses SCRAM authentication but also what SCRAM authentication is and how it works.

What Are Postgres Templates? — We’ve covered this in one of our ‘tips of the week’ before, but if you’re unaware of what template databases are and how they’re used, this is a quick primer.

Foreign Data Wrappers: Postgres's Secret Weapon? — Foreign data wrappers (often called FDWs, for short) lets you query remote databases directly from your PostgreSQL instance and here’s how that works alongside Splitgraph, a toolkit for building and working with “data images”.

Distributed SQL Beats Polyglot Persistence for Building Microservices — Polyglot persistence is the silent killer of release agility; distributed SQL is the answer for today’s multicloud era.

pgsodium: A Postgres Extension for Using libsodium — libsodium is a crypto library for encryption, decryption, signatures, password hashing and more.