| From: | "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
| Cc: | A(dot)M(dot) <agentm(at)themactionfaction(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: PostgreSQL future ideas |
| Date: | 2008-09-26 17:47:16 |
| Message-ID: | 36e682920809261047v10630d82mac5447cb21bf4097@mail.gmail.com |
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On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
>> Speaking of language choice, no one said that _all_ the source code would
>> need to be rewritten. It would be nice, for example, if PostgreSQL rewrote
>> the current GUC system with a glue language like Lua (which is also very
>> C-like).
>
> No it wouldn't. All it would mean is that you'd need developers fluent in
> both languages.
Having done quite a bit of internals work with SAP DB (which is an
amalgamation of C, C++, and Pascal), I completely agree. The entire
system, if possible, should be in a single language.
--
Jonah H. Harris, Senior DBA
myYearbook.com
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