Re: Mostly Harmless: Welcoming our C++ friends

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Kurt Harriman <harriman(at)acm(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, James Mansion <james(at)mansionfamily(dot)plus(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Mostly Harmless: Welcoming our C++ friends
Date: 2008-12-12 02:03:27
Message-ID: 15225.1229047407@sss.pgh.pa.us
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I wrote:
> The stumbling block, though, remains the same as I mentioned in the
> message you linked to: if we fix some or all of the headers, what's the
> plan for making sure that they stay fixed? Without a C++ buildfarm
> member I think the chances of future breakage approach certainty.

Actually, after re-reading the whole earlier thread I see that we did
think of a possible answer to that:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2007-07/msg00056.php
which in fact is on the TODO list now. So if someone wanted to step
up and make that happen, it would become sane to try to have C++-clean
headers.

regards, tom lane

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