2016-08-17 14:40 GMT+03:00 Aleksander Alekseev <a.alekseev@postgrespro.ru>:
>> I'm sure this wasn't your intent, but the tone of your response is
>> part of why people don't get involved with Postgres development...
>>
>> Please note that you're the only person in the entire thread that's
>> said anything to the effect of a holy war...
>>
>> OTOH, if the community takes the stance of "WTF WHY DO WE NEED
>> THIS?!", we've just driven Joy and anyone else that's a C++ fan away.
>
> I'm sorry for being maybe to emotional. It's was not (and never is!) my
> intent to offend anyone. Also I would like to note that I don't speak
> for community, I speak for myself.
>
> What I saw was: "hey, lets rewrite PostgreSQL in C++ without any good
> reason except (see [1] list)". Naturally I though (and still think) that
> you people are just trolls. Or maybe "everything should be written in
> C++ because it's the only right language and anyone who thinks
> otherwise is wrong" type of fanatics. Thus I don't think you are here to
> help.
>
> Give a concrete reason. Like "hey, we rewrote this part of code in C++
> and look, its much more readable, twice as fast as code in C (how to do
> benchmarks right is a separate good topic!) and it still compiles fast
> even on Raspberry Pi, works on all platforms you are supporting, etc".
> Or "hey, we solved xid wraparound problem once and for all, but solution
> is in C++, so its for you to decide whether to merge it or not".
I doubt that someone will rush to rewrite PostgreSQL in C++. At now, the
reason to consider the refactoring of current codebase to make the C++
compilers happy, is to make the code more qualitative. I think, that only after
that step it is reasonable to consider the use some of C++ features.
