| From: | Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)BlueTreble(dot)com> |
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| To: | Joy Arulraj <jarulraj(at)cs(dot)cmu(dot)edu>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Gavin Flower <GavinFlower(at)archidevsys(dot)co(dot)nz>, dandl <david(at)andl(dot)org>, Adam Brusselback <adambrusselback(at)gmail(dot)com>, kang joni <kangjoni76(at)gmail(dot)com>, Dmitry Igrishin <dmitigr(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Subject: | Re: [GENERAL] C++ port of Postgres |
| Date: | 2016-08-16 20:22:09 |
| Message-ID: | 66b61d8b-fe76-d4a9-a983-93a94444a2a6@BlueTreble.com |
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On 8/16/16 12:53 PM, Joy Arulraj wrote:
> > The whole thing would make a lot more sense given a credible design
> > for error handling that keeps both languages happy.
>
> Well, getting so that we can at least compile in both systems would
> certainly increase the chances of somebody being willing to work on
> such a design. And if nobody ever does, then at least people who want
> to fork and do research projects based on PostgreSQL will have
> slightly less work to do when they want to hack it up. PostgreSQL
> seems to be a very popular starting point for research work, but a
> paper I read recently complained about the antiquity of our code base.
> I prefer to call that backward-compatibility, but at some point people
> stop thinking of you as backward-compatible and instead think of you
> as simply backward.
>
> I agree, this was the main reason why we wanted to add support for C++.
Joy, do you have an idea what a *minimally invasive* patch for C++
support would look like? That's certainly the first step here.
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