From: | Gavin Flower <GavinFlower(at)archidevsys(dot)co(dot)nz> |
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To: | Joel Jacobson <joel(at)trustly(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: RustgreSQL |
Date: | 2017-01-08 09:59:10 |
Message-ID: | 8b84da38-ae1b-721e-dad7-506fabddda4b@archidevsys.co.nz |
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On 08/01/17 22:09, Joel Jacobson wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is anyone working on porting PostgreSQL to Rust?
>
> Corrode looks a bit limited for the task, but maybe it can be a start.
> It doesn't support goto or switch, but maybe the gotos patterns are
> not too complicated.
>
> My motivation is primarily I don't want to learn all the
> over-complicated details of C,
> but at the same time I would like to be productive in a safe system
> language,
> a category in which Rust seems to be alone.
>
> Porting PostgreSQL to Rust would be a multi-year project,
> and it could only be done if the process could be fully automated,
> by supporting all the coding patterns used by the project,
> otherwise a Rust-port would quickly fall behind the master branch.
> But if all git commits could be automatically converted to Rust,
> then the RustgreSQL project could pull all commits from upstream
> until all development has switched over to Rust among all developers.
>
> 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++!
Cheers,
Gavin
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