Re: Mostly Harmless: Welcoming our C++ friends

From: Ron Mayer <rm_pg(at)cheapcomplexdevices(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Kurt Harriman <harriman(at)acm(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Mostly Harmless: Welcoming our C++ friends
Date: 2008-12-15 21:45:22
Message-ID: 4946CFF2.7010006@cheapcomplexdevices.com
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Tom Lane wrote:
> I am, btw, still waiting for an actually plausible use-case for this.
> AFAICS the setjmp-vs-exceptions thing puts a very serious crimp in
> what you could hope to accomplish by importing a pile of C++ code.

The one use-case I can think of that imports a pile of C++ code
is the GEOS library that PostGIS uses (used?):

http://postgis.refractions.net/support/wiki/index.php?GEOS
"GEOS is a C++ port of the JTS Topology Suite. It is used by PostGIS to
implement Topological functions. "

However it seems to work fine even without the C++-header project,
so I must be missing something here...

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