James Blackwood-Sewell

Senior Staff Developer Advocate at Timescale

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James Blackwood-Sewell has presented the following presentations

    James Blackwood-Sewell Fearless Extension Development with Rust and PGRX at PG Down Under 2026

    presented by James Blackwood-Sewell

    I’ve been working with Postgres since 2010, and over the years there have been many times when I’ve hit functionality or performance barriers and wanted to extend PostgreSQL to do new things.

    This presented a problem for me: I knew I needed to use C, but as someone who didn’t have years of professional experience writing code for production this felt error-prone and daunting.

    Enter PGRX, ...

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