> -----Original Message----- > From: Alvaro Herrera [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 12:06 PM > To: Tom Lane > Cc: Dave Held; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Woo hoo ... a whole new set of compiler > headaches!! :) > > [...] > Why don't we rewrite Postgres in D? > > http://www.digitalmars.com/d/ > > :-D
I see the smiley, but moving to C++ isn't just about switching to the latest fad language. First of all, you would literally have to rewrite it to use D. There would probably need to be very little work to make the Postgres codebase a conforming set of C++ programs (mostly renaming variables/types named 'class', 'virtual', 'bool', etc.). Second, you can find a decent C++ compiler on virtually every platform that has a C compiler. Third, C++ offers real advantages in type safety, exception handling, resource management, and even performance. Even doing something as simple as writing a stored procedure in C is somewhat awkward because of all the boilerplate casting that must be done. I'm fairly certain that most of the macros in the stored procedure interface could go away if a C++ API were created. __ David B. Held Software Engineer/Array Services Group 200 14th Ave. East, Sartell, MN 56377 320.534.3637 320.253.7800 800.752.8129 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend
