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Joel Jacobson asked: > Is anyone working on porting PostgreSQL to Rust? No; extremely unlikely. > My motivation is primarily I don't want to learn all the > over-complicated details of C Well that's going to be a show-stopper right there. For a proper port, a deep understanding of the current source code is necessary. You'd need a team expert in both C and Rust to pull it off. > 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, Developing such a system is bordering on AI and likely more complex than Postgres itself. :) > Is this completely unrealistic or is it carved in stone PostgreSQL will > always be a C project forever and ever? It's unrealistic, but there is nothing to say Postgres will stay in C forever. Right now, however, there is no compelling reason to move away from it, and the porting effort to any language would be immense. C++ would be the least painful option, probably. - -- Greg Sabino Mullane g...@turnstep.com End Point Corporation http://www.endpoint.com/ PGP Key: 0x14964AC8 201701080905 http://biglumber.com/x/web?pk=2529DF6AB8F79407E94445B4BC9B906714964AC8 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iEYEAREDAAYFAlhyR44ACgkQvJuQZxSWSsimzgCg97QZZ47BfNtema5aoN2QIpY9 wTUAn3B042YDH82GPLDwXmDSgJMzsoGD =PH10 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
