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Re: RustgreSQL

Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>

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From: Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>
To: Gavin Flower <GavinFlower@archidevsys.co.nz>
Cc: Joel Jacobson <joel@trustly.com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2017-01-08T10:12:28Z
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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.