A.M. wrote:
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> 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).
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>
No it wouldn't. All it would mean is that you'd need developers fluent
in both languages.
If this were a greenfields project we might well now make choices other
than those made in the past, but that doesn't mean we should constantly
revisit those decisions.
cheers
andrew
