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

From: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: "Neil Conway" <nconway(at)klamath(dot)dyndns(dot)org>, "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
Cc: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Bruce Momjian" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, "PostgreSQL-development" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Trim the Fat (Was: Re: Open 7.3 items )
Date: 2002-08-01 01:36:54
Message-ID: GNELIHDDFBOCMGBFGEFOGEHECDAA.chriskl@familyhealth.com.au
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> 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

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