Re: server-side extension in c++ - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: server-side extension in c++
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Msg-id 24379.1275361511@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: server-side extension in c++  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Responses Re: server-side extension in c++  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Re: server-side extension in c++  (Craig Ringer <craig@postnewspapers.com.au>)
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Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Personally I would reduce this section to
>>    Don't.

> Well, I would have avoided this mine-trap except we have this 9.0
> release note item:
>        Allow use of <productname>C++</> functions in backend code (Kurt
>        Harriman, Peter Eisentraut)

I'd be interested to see a section like this written by someone who'd
actually done a nontrivial C++ extension and lived to tell the tale.
As is, this is so incomplete that my opinion is it's worse than useless.
It gives people the impression that writing an extension in C++ will
be easy.  When they find out it isn't, we'll get the blame.

            regards, tom lane

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