Re: C++ compiler

<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 25/06/2013 05:16, Tom Lane wrote:<br /></div><blockquote
cite="mid:29207.1372133763@sss.pgh.pa.us"type="cite"><div class="moz-text-plain" graphical-quote="true"
lang="x-western"style="font-family: -moz-fixed; font-size: 14px;" wrap="true">It might be time to reconsider whether we
shouldmove the baseline portability requirement up to C99.</div></blockquote><br /> My understanding was that you
pickedup a lot of users when the Win32 port became useful.  While you can build with msys, I would think that leaving
Microsoft'stooling behind would be a mistake, and as far as I am aware they have said that they are supporting C++11
butnot bothering with C99.<br /><br /><blockquote cite="mid:29207.1372133763@sss.pgh.pa.us" type="cite"><div
class="moz-text-plain"graphical-quote="true" lang="x-western" style="font-family: -moz-fixed; font-size: 14px;"
wrap="true">I'm really not in favor of moving to C++ though, as the portability-vs-usefulness tradeoffs seem pretty
unattractivethere.</div></blockquote><br /> As a long-time C++ programmer I don't see what the problem would be beyond
(some)existing contributors being wary of the unknown.  Its not as if any platform developed enough to be a sane db
serverhas not got a decent C++ compiler or two.  Portability is only really a problem with a subset of new C++11
features.<br/><br />