Re: RustgreSQL

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

To: Jan de Visser <jan@de-visser.net>

Cc: "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Joel Jacobson <joel@trustly.com>, Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com>, Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@bluetreble.com>, Gavin Flower <GavinFlower@archidevsys.co.nz>

Date: 2017-01-10T13:48:53Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 8:42 AM, Jan de Visser <jan@de-visser.net> wrote:
> Be that as it may, I don't think you have convinced anybody that that is
> something worth doing. The fact it *could* be done doesn't mean it *should* be
> done.

+1.

> What you are proposing is not going to happen unless you get some serious buy-
> in from a significant number of veteran contributors. And those are exactly the
> people that say "C? What's the problem?"

+1.

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.  I can't
see why we'd want to start converting even a part of the code to
something else.  Perhaps it seems like a good idea from 10,000 feet,
but in practice I believe it would be fraught with difficulties - and
if it injected even a few additional instructions into hot code paths,
it would be a performance loser.

-- 
Robert Haas
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