| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Lamar Owen <lowen(at)pari(dot)edu>, "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Dennis Gearon <gearond(at)fireserve(dot)net>, Ron Johnson <ron(dot)l(dot)johnson(at)cox(dot)net>, PgSQL General ML <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: State of Beta 2 |
| Date: | 2003-09-27 21:44:29 |
| Message-ID: | 200309272144.h8RLiTJ14335@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > With all the discussion and pg_upgrade, I saw no one offer to work on
> > it.
> > Does someone want to convert it to Perl? I think that would be a better
> > language than shell script for this purpose, and C is too low-level.
>
> The reason that it needs to be rewritten in C is that it needs access to
> internal stuff that the backend doesn't expose. (For example, the
> transaction counter, end-of-WAL pointer, etc.) I don't think Perl would
> offer anything except creating an entirely new dependency for Postgres.
> Also, C code would be easier to keep in sync with the backend code that
> accesses the same stuff.
True, but doing all that text manipulation is C is going to be very hard
to do and maintain.
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