On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 11:56:13AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > "Dave Held" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Yeah, that's good news too, though it definitely helps that > > Postgres is written in C. Most of the conformance improvements > > are in the C++ front-end and the C++ Standard Library. Still > > no export though. I personally believe that projects should > > move to C++ when possible, but I understand that there is still > > a perception that C is fundamentally faster. > > I dunno about "fundamentally faster", but "fundamentally more stable" > I'd agree with. C++ has never recovered from being a moving target > for so long. For a project with any serious ambitions of portability, > it's a pretty risky choice.
Why don't we rewrite Postgres in D? http://www.digitalmars.com/d/ :-D -- Alvaro Herrera (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) "Pensar que el espectro que vemos es ilusorio no lo despoja de espanto, sólo le suma el nuevo terror de la locura" (Perelandra, CSLewis) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
