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by throwitaway222 22 days ago
Especially since all those sketchy extensions can be rewritten in rust over a weekend and have their bugs fixed as well.
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This is just not true. PGRX can't physically support expanded shared memory due to Rust being very strict with custom allocators. A lot of shady extensions rely on dynamically allocated memory and C++ is like the only possible choice there.