Re: PostgreSQL future ideas - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Gevik Babakhani
Subject Re: PostgreSQL future ideas
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Msg-id 002401c91ef4$16302fc0$0a01a8c0@gevmus
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In response to Re: PostgreSQL future ideas  (Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek.Kotala@Sun.COM>)
Responses Re: PostgreSQL future ideas  (Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek.Kotala@Sun.COM>)
Re: PostgreSQL future ideas  (Mark Mielke <mark@mark.mielke.cc>)
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> Advantage of C++ is that it reduce lot of OO code written in 
> C in PostgreSQL, but it is so big effort to do that without 
> small gain. It will increase number of bugs. Do not forget 
> also that C++ compiler is not so common (so good) on 
> different platforms. If somebody interesting in that yes but 
> like a fork ( PostgreSQL++ :-).

Reducing OO code that is written in C is one of my major interests. After
some investigating myself it appears that having the codebase fully
(rewritten in C++ will have an impact on the performance. So I guess such an
effort will result the code being more C++ish and fully OO, being a mixture
in C with some OO taste.

> Better idea is to start to use C99 in PostgreSQL ;-).

I have not investigated this yet. But I am very interested to know what the
advantages would be to "upgrade" the code to C99 standards.

Regards,
Gevik
http://www.truesoftware.net/gevik/



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