| From: | Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr> |
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| To: | Gavin Flower <GavinFlower(at)archidevsys(dot)co(dot)nz> |
| Cc: | Joel Jacobson <joel(at)trustly(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: RustgreSQL |
| Date: | 2017-01-08 10:12:28 |
| Message-ID: | alpine.DEB.2.20.1701081105280.10378@lancre |
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>> Is this completely unrealistic or is it carved in stone PostgreSQL will
>> always be a C project forever and ever?
>
> From my very limited understanding, PostgreSQL is more likely to be converted
> to C++!
ISTM that currently pg is written C89. Personnaly I think that C99
(standard from 18 years ago...) would be a progress, but this has been
rejected in the past because of portability issues on some platforms (eg
MS Visual C++ started to support part of C99 in ... 2013).
--
Fabien.
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