| From: | John Naylor <john(dot)naylor(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Lev Kokotov <lev(at)hyperparam(dot)ai>, Andrey Borodin <x4mmm(at)yandex-team(dot)ru>, Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Support for Rust |
| Date: | 2022-09-19 06:21:20 |
| Message-ID: | CAFBsxsECHm33Gu7L8+9v-EBxOLc6dozq=Ve-sgPkwM7BSO43Eg@mail.gmail.com |
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On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 10:29 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> Lev Kokotov <lev(at)hyperparam(dot)ai> writes:
> > I took a small part of Postgres to get started, so just as a PoC; it
> > compiles and runs though. Larger parts will take more work (deleting
code,
> > not just swapping object files), and more fancy things like PG_TRY() and
> > friends will have to be rewritten, so not a short and easy migration.
>
> Yeah, that's what I thought. "Allow some parts to be written in
> language X" soon turns into "Rewrite the entire system in language X,
> including fundamental rethinking of memory management, error handling,
> and some other things". That's pretty much a non-starter.
Added "Rewrite the code in a different language" to "Features We Do Not
Want" section of Wiki, referencing the two threads that came up:
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Todo#Features_We_Do_Not_Want
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John Naylor
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
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