Re: Woo hoo ... a whole new set of compiler headaches!! :)

"Dave Held" <dave.held@arrayservicesgrp.com> writes:
> Yeah, that's good news too, though it definitely helps that
> Postgres is written in C.  Most of the conformance improvements
> are in the C++ front-end and the C++ Standard Library.  Still
> no export though.  I personally believe that projects should 
> move to C++ when possible, but I understand that there is still 
> a perception that C is fundamentally faster.

I dunno about "fundamentally faster", but "fundamentally more stable"
I'd agree with.  C++ has never recovered from being a moving target
for so long.  For a project with any serious ambitions of portability,
it's a pretty risky choice.
        regards, tom lane