Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> I'm not meaning to be funny or sarcastic or disrespectful when I say
> that I think C is the best possible language for PostgreSQL. It works
> great, and we've got a ton of investment in making it work.
Yeah. There's certainly a whole lot of path dependency in that statement
--- if you were starting to write Postgres from scratch today, you would
very likely choose some other language. But given where we are, there's
just not a lot of attraction in trying to convert to another language.
As other people noted, the one path that might possibly make sense is
a gradual upgrade to C++. But getting past the exceptions issue is a
pretty high bar that we'd have to clear before we could do much in
that direction; and it's not obvious that C++ would offer enough benefit
to be worth it. Most of us would rather spend our time on new features
or performance improvements, not fighting with a language changeover.
regards, tom lane
