Re: PostgreSQL future ideas

jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com ("Jonah H. Harris") writes:
> 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.

Note that this actually *isn't* possible; PostgreSQL is implemented in
a number of languages already:
a) C, obviously
b) m4 and some autoconf macrology
c) GNU make
d) There's some awk
e) Shell script
f) Flex
g) Bison

And I'm not sure that's all there is :-).
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