Re: Trim the Fat (Was: Re: Open 7.3 items )

Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>

From: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>

To: "Neil Conway" <nconway@klamath.dyndns.org>, "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>

Cc: "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, "Bruce Momjian" <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, "PostgreSQL-development" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2002-08-01T01:36:54Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

> Mentioning that on -hackers would have been nice -- I've spent a while
> this week hacking autoconf / Makefiles to integrate libpqxx...
>
> The problem I have with removing libpqxx is that libpq++ is a far
> inferior C++ interface. If we leave libpq++ as the only C++ interface
> distributed with PostgreSQL, there will be a tendancy for people
> using PostgreSQL & C++ to use the C++ support included with the
> distribution. Similarly, the Perl interface included with
> PostgreSQL is widely regarded as inferior to DBD::Pg.

I think that if someone is actually working on libpqxx integration - then
yeah, leave it in...

Chris