A Rust PostgreSQL Extension for CAS Numbers

Richard L. Apodaca · 2021

The previous article in this series introduced a simple method for writing PostgreSQL extensions in Rust with the pgx crate. The example in that article, although a complete extension, only exposed a function. A more interesting extension would define a custom data type that worked correctly with indexes. This article describes such an extension. Compiling and Running the Extension The extension, cas_number is available on GitHub.

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