Village SQL - A MySQL Fork With Easy Extensions
I was happy to see a new MySQL fork appear. Village SQL bills itself as 'A drop-in replacement for MySQL with extensions for the agentic AI era'. Mainstream Oracle MySQL does have Plug-ins, but I have found them less easy to develop and use than other implementations, such as PostgreSQL extensions. So how does it work? Head over to https://github.com/villagesql/villagesql-server and follow the directions to clone and build the code. You will see detailed instructions for Linux and Mac builds. I followed the directions, let the make run overnight (slow hampsters in my testbed Ubuntu laptop). The instructions were complete and easy to follow. First Run $ ~/build/villagesql/bin/mysql -u root -h 127.0.0.1 Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 10 Server version: 8.4.6-villagesql0.0.1-dev Source distribution Copyright (c) 2000, 2025, Oracle and/or its affiliates. Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corp...