Re: PostgreSQL port to pure Java?

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> Not to mention it would kill PostgreSQL's current speedy performance!
>>
>>
> Maybe, maybe not. Modern JVMs have much better performance
> characteristics than was once the case. Also, some of the things that
> Java buys you (memory management, threading, for example) might actually
> enhance performance in some circumstances. A crude port wouldn't work,
> though - it would have to be done in such a way as to leverage the
> platform's strengths, just as we leverage the strengths of writing in C.
>
> The *big* problem would be keeping a Java port in sync with the base.
> That would make it almost impossible to do in a worthwhile way IMNSHO -
> the maintenance would be a nightmare.
>
> It would be an excellent student exercise, though :-)

Jokes and facts aside, I can't help it to think how better it would have been,
if postgresql was in C++. We could easily plug multiple implementations of
underlying subsystems without mucking much in base code..

Wild thought anyways..

Shridhar