Usually databases are treated primarily as fairly dumb data storage systems, but they can be capable of much more. Case in point the PostgreSQL database and its – Ada-based – PL/pgSQL programming ...

Researchers at Varonis discovered a vulnerability within Postgres language extension PL/Perl, allowing a user to set arbitrary environment variables in PostgreSQL session processes. The vulnerability ...

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We are converting the UDFs from PL/PGSQL to PL/Rust. When we try to run the sql file with all the UDFs in PL/PGSQL, the UDFs are loaded very quickly where as with PL/Rust, it is taking a long time. Is ...

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A lover of RPGs, Board Games, and Storytelling Joshua is a gamer to the core. He loves story-driven narratives but also spends ample time in the battlefields of varying Call of Duty titles. Despite ...