Re: PostgreSQL future ideas - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jonah H. Harris
Subject Re: PostgreSQL future ideas
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Msg-id 36e682920809261047v10630d82mac5447cb21bf4097@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: PostgreSQL future ideas  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
>> Speaking of language choice, no one said that _all_ the source code would
>> need to be rewritten. It would be nice, for example, if PostgreSQL rewrote
>> the current GUC system with a glue language like Lua (which is also very
>> C-like).
>
> No it wouldn't. All it would mean is that you'd need developers fluent in
> both languages.

Having done quite a bit of internals work with SAP DB (which is an
amalgamation of C, C++, and Pascal), I completely agree.  The entire
system, if possible, should be in a single language.

-- 
Jonah H. Harris, Senior DBA
myYearbook.com


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