Re: Deprecating RULES

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Peter Geoghegan <peter(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Deprecating RULES
Date: 2012-10-15 19:51:58
Message-ID: 507C695E.60807@dunslane.net
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On 10/15/2012 03:23 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I have trouble seeing how we could implement Postgres as efficiently
> without C macros, but maybe that is the point --- efficiency is not
> critical in SQL --- Java and C++ give other options that are "good
> enough" and less error-prone.
>
>

Er, C++ uses the preprocessor. In fact, C++ was originally created as a
set of preprocessor macros, IIRC.

cheers

andrew

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