Re: Mostly Harmless: Welcoming our C++ friends

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On Saturday 06 December 2008 22:38:29 James Mansion wrote:
>   
>> Kurt Harriman wrote:
>>     
>>> The foremost opposing argument seems to have been that there
>>> should be no attempt to alleviate the existing reserved word
>>> problem without automatic enforcement to guarantee that never
>>> in the future can new occurrences be introduced.
>>>       
>> Is there anything in the source that would necessarily preclude using the
>> C++ compiler to build *all* the code?
>>     
>
> Probably lots, but that's not the problem we are trying to solve here.  And 
> many people are seriously not interested in using C++ for PostgreSQL.
>
>   

The most serious problem AFAIK is that we use setjmp/longjmp, which I 
understand does not play at all nicely with C++ exceptions.

cheers

andrew