Re: PostgreSQL port to pure Java?

Shridhar Daithankar <shridhar_daithankar(at)myrealbox(dot)com> writes:

> Jokes and facts aside, I can't help it to think how better it would
> have been, if postgresql was in C++. We could easily plug multiple
> implementations of underlying subsystems without mucking much in base
> code..

That's easy to do in any language if your code is carefully designed
for it (look at the Linux kernel for an example in C) and hard to do
even in C++, if the design isn't suited. So your assertion that C++
would have magically enabled "pluggabilty" doesn't hold water.

> Wild thought anyways..

Indeed.

-Doug