Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports croaring-rs and num-bigint crates for Trusted Language Extensions

Trusted Language Extensions for PostgreSQL (pg_tle) now supports new crates for PL/Rust such as croaring-rs and num-bigint, enabling you to build more of your extensions on RDS for PostgreSQL. PL/Rust, a PostgreSQL trusted procedural language, combines the performance and resource efficiency of compiled languages like C and provides memory safety so that an unprivileged user can run code in the database.

Rust crates extend functionality in PL/Rust to help support more use cases such as for analytics, search, and security applications. croaring-rs adds support for roaring bitmap, a data type that provides better compression and lower memory utilization compared to conventional bitmaps. Roaring bitamps are used for applications that require high performance lookups with a high compression ratio, such as analytics and big data. The num-bigint crate adds precision handling for arbitrarily large sized integers, which is used for security and scientific applications.

pg_tle is an open source development kit to help you build extensions written in a trusted language, such as PL/Rust, that run safely on PostgreSQL. Support for num-bigint and croaring-rs crates is available on database instances in Amazon RDS running PostgreSQL 16.1-R2 and higher, 15.5-R2 and higher, 14.10-R2 and higher, and 13.13-R2 and higher in all applicable AWS Regions. To learn more about using pg_tle, see our documentation.

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL makes it simple to set up, operate, and scale PostgreSQL deployments in the cloud. See Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Pricing for pricing details and regional availability. Create or update a fully managed Amazon RDS database in the Amazon RDS Management Console.