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[Sergei Golubchik <serg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Christian!

On Feb 18, Christian Convey wrote:
> Thanks Sergei.  So why is it used in some places, but not in the
> server code?

STL is pretty much ok starting from 10.0.

Exceptions - they aren't used in the server yet, we'd need to make a
decision that they're ok to use. And we haven't discussed that.

Regards,
Sergei

> On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 3:00 AM, Sergei Golubchik <serg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Feb 17, Christian Convey wrote:
> >> I just read in Pachev's "MySQL Internals" book that C++ STL and
> >> exceptions aren't allowed in the MySQL code.
> >>
> >> Are those restrictions also in effect for MariaDB?  If so, can
> >> anyone explain the reason for them?
> >
> > The reason is historical. When Sasha was in MySQL, STL and
> > exceptions just were too buggy for us to use - in a heavily
> > multi-threaded code of MySQL.
> >
> > It's no longer true. We use exceptions - although not in the server
> > code, but OQGraph engine uses them. And STL - MySQL server uses STL
> > now and in 10.0 we're merging this code, so we're getting it now
> > too.