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

On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 02:11:06AM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Tom Lane wrote:
> > * libpqxx is not integrated into build process nor docs.  It should
> > be integrated or reversed out before beta.
> 
> I've requestsed that Jeorgen(sp?) move this over to GBorg ... its
> something that can, and should be, built seperately from the base
> distribution, along with at least a dozen other things we have bloating
> the distribution now :(  but at least that one hasn't been integrated yet
> ...

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.

If we're going to start removing interfaces, I'd vote for the removal of
perl5 & libpq++ as well as libpqxx. We can add a section to the
documentation listing the available language interfaces (for languages
like Python, where several interfaces exist, this would probably be a
good idea anyway).

Cheers,

Neil

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