Andrew Dunstan wrote:
We already do use threads on Windows to a limited extent to do things
like timers and pseudo-signal handling.
If this were a greenfields project then your arguments would have
force. But for how long would you like to suspend Postgres development
activity while we re-implement everything in Java? Not to mention the
effort to recruit new developers to replace those who leave because
they can't or don't want to be part of the effort.
For better or worse, PostgreSQL is written in C, and I can't see that
changing.
It might be interesting to take a frozen code base for PostgreSQL and
reimplement it in Java, and then run some comparisons, both for
performance and crash stability. I just counted roughly 100k lines of
source code, so a reimplementation effort would be distinctly
non-trivial.
and a happy April 1 to you too, btw.
cheers
andrew
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