Re: server-side extension in c++

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Personally I would reduce this section to
> >> Don't.
>
> > Well, I would have avoided this mine-trap except we have this 9.0
> > release note item:
> > Allow use of <productname>C++</> functions in backend code (Kurt
> > Harriman, Peter Eisentraut)
>
> I'd be interested to see a section like this written by someone who'd
> actually done a nontrivial C++ extension and lived to tell the tale.
> As is, this is so incomplete that my opinion is it's worse than useless.
> It gives people the impression that writing an extension in C++ will
> be easy. When they find out it isn't, we'll get the blame.

So should I just comment it out and then when someone gets serious we
can use it as a starting point for them?

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