Injecting a Chess Engine into Amazon Redshift
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Injecting a Chess Engine into Amazon Redshift was first seen on Lobsters · Hottest on Oct 31, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 1 check on 1 different day. Its best position was #5 of 25, reached on Oct 31, 05:21 UTC. It dropped off the list after Oct 31, 05:21 UTC.
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> If you’d like to try it on your live production database Good one :-)
He appears to be exploiting the fact that the extension to allow embedded python functions in postgres (and redshift) is unsafe, and able to execute arbitrary code. Of course, you could also simply write the chess engine in python (rather than in C++ injected into python), or whatever extension language is available.…
Is this something Amazon could easily patch out of their query compiler? What's the generally accepted way of optimizing CPU-bound queries without injecting assembly code- would it be splitting a query into multiple ones: Query pt1 -> do some CPU -> Query pt2?
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