Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > I'm not meaning to be funny or sarcastic or disrespectful when I say > that I think C is the best possible language for PostgreSQL. It works > great, and we've got a ton of investment in making it work.
Yeah. There's certainly a whole lot of path dependency in that statement --- if you were starting to write Postgres from scratch today, you would very likely choose some other language. But given where we are, there's just not a lot of attraction in trying to convert to another language. As other people noted, the one path that might possibly make sense is a gradual upgrade to C++. But getting past the exceptions issue is a pretty high bar that we'd have to clear before we could do much in that direction; and it's not obvious that C++ would offer enough benefit to be worth it. Most of us would rather spend our time on new features or performance improvements, not fighting with a language changeover. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers