Re: Trim the Fat (Was: Re: Open 7.3 items ) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Christopher Kings-Lynne
Subject Re: Trim the Fat (Was: Re: Open 7.3 items )
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In response to Re: Trim the Fat (Was: Re: Open 7.3 items )  (nconway@klamath.dyndns.org (Neil Conway))
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> Mentioning that on -hackers would have been nice -- I've spent a while
> this week hacking autoconf / Makefiles to integrate libpqxx...
>
> The problem I have with removing libpqxx is that libpq++ is a far
> inferior C++ interface. If we leave libpq++ as the only C++ interface
> distributed with PostgreSQL, there will be a tendancy for people
> using PostgreSQL & C++ to use the C++ support included with the
> distribution. Similarly, the Perl interface included with
> PostgreSQL is widely regarded as inferior to DBD::Pg.

I think that if someone is actually working on libpqxx integration - then
yeah, leave it in...

Chris



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