On Mon, 2022-09-12 at 11:29 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Rust gives many things we wanted for decades:
>
> > 1. No undefined behavior
> > 2. No memory leaks, guaranteed at compile time
>
> Really? It seems impossible to me that a language that even thinks
> it can guarantee that could interoperate
On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 10:29 PM Tom Lane wrote:
>
> Lev Kokotov writes:
> > I took a small part of Postgres to get started, so just as a PoC; it
> > compiles and runs though. Larger parts will take more work (deleting
code,
> > not just swapping object files), and more fancy things like PG_TRY()
On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 11:29:12AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Lev Kokotov writes:
> >> 3. Do we gain anything besides compiler hints? Postgres development is
> >> hard due to interference of complex subsystems. It will be even harder if
> >> those systems will be implemented in different languages.
Lev Kokotov writes:
>> 3. Do we gain anything besides compiler hints? Postgres development is
>> hard due to interference of complex subsystems. It will be even harder if
>> those systems will be implemented in different languages.
> Rust gives many things we wanted for decades:
> 1. No undefine
> You can write Postgres extensions in Rust. And Postgres extensions are
really powerful. What kind of features are you interested in?
Agreed, I've been writing one in Rust using tcdi/pgx [0]. Some features
can't be done there though, e.g. adding ON CONFLICT support to COPY.
> 1. Is Rust compatib
On Fri, Sep 09, 2022 at 07:38:14PM -0700, Lev Kokotov wrote:
> Are there any plans or thoughts about adding support for other languages
> than C into Postgres, namely Rust? I would love to hack on some features
> but I worry somewhat that the C compiler won't give me enough hints that
> I'm doing s
Hi!
> On 10 Sep 2022, at 07:38, Lev Kokotov wrote:
>
> Are there any plans or thoughts about adding support for other languages than
> C into Postgres, namely Rust? I would love to hack on some features but I
> worry somewhat that the C compiler won't give me enough hints that I'm doing
> som
