Author: Trevor Gross

One of the most straightforward ways to add functionality to MariaDB or MySQL server instances is by creating a user-defined function (UDF). These are compiled functions loaded from dynamic binaries that can be much more performant and flexible than what can be written in SQL, providing the same capabilities as builtin functions.

These UDFs are typically written in C or C++, but a library is now available that makes it easy to write them in Rust. This blog discusses some […]