pllua-ng

Re-implementation of pllua, embedded Lua for postgresql

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Re-implementation of pllua, embedded Lua for postgresql

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massaman_yams·Sep 19, 2018

These are both up to date at the moment, but it's not entirely clear which one of these will be used for future development: https://github.com/RhodiumToad/pllua-ng https://github.com/pllua/pllua-ng

In PL/Lua: Lua as a loadable procedural language for Postgres

xdanger·Sep 19, 2018

If you want a modern version of this, you should checkout https://github.com/RhodiumToad/pllua-ng A friend of mine benchmarked different pl languages and https://github.com/eugwne/pllj was basically the fastest, but it's not so actively maintained. pllua-ng with luajit 2.1 was also faster than plv8. But that was about two years ago, your milage may vary. "Lua is faster - PL/V8 is lightly faster than Python, but Lua is about 30% faster than PL/V8" - Pavel Stěhule and that was without luajit, but 4 years ago. Maybe someone should build a benchmark :D

In PL/Lua: Lua as a loadable procedural language for Postgres