On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 10:29 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> Lev Kokotov <l...@hyperparam.ai> 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() and
> > friends will have to be rewritten, so not a short and easy migration.
>
> Yeah, that's what I thought.  "Allow some parts to be written in
> language X" soon turns into "Rewrite the entire system in language X,
> including fundamental rethinking of memory management, error handling,
> and some other things".  That's pretty much a non-starter.

Added "Rewrite the code in a different language" to "Features We Do Not
Want" section of Wiki, referencing the two threads that came up:

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Todo#Features_We_Do_Not_Want

-- 
John Naylor
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