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The Village Crier — VillageSQL Updates

VillageSQL blog and Village News email roundup covering MySQL, MariaDB, database extensions, releases and community events.

2 issuesArchived Oct 22, 2026 – Oct 26, 2026Subscribe at the source

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  1. Crafting an Extension Framework for MySQL: a talk from MySQL BR Conf 2026

    I opened my MySQL BR Conf 2026 talk creating a new data type that stock MySQL doesn’t have: ROT13. … OK, admittedly, it’s a silly type. With a ROT13 column, you insert plain strings and read back plain strings, but the table stores scrambled text. … OK, it’s very *very* silly…

  2. Benchmarking vector indexes in MySQL with vector-dev-bench

    PostgreSQL has a rapidly evolving vector ecosystem. MySQL is earlier on that road, but the community is hard at work catching up. MariaDB ships its own HNSW index, Google engineers have shared a ScaNN-based vector index on MySQL's own vector index proposal, Percona is building…