| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)sun(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: pg_upgrade project status |
| Date: | 2009-01-27 14:49:00 |
| Message-ID: | 20090127144900.GG6444@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Dave Page wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Alvaro Herrera
> <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
>
> > I think it's fairly easy to install Perl on Windows actually. It
> > doesn't sound too onerous a requirement if you want in-place upgrade;
> > actually it looks a very reasonable one.
>
> There are installers for it, but given that we made a point of porting
> everything to C to avoid using any scripting languages on end-user
> machines when we ported to Windows, it seems strange to relax that
> 'policy' now for convenience.
If you prefer to not have pg_upgrade at all for 8.4, feel free to
request it to be written in C ... But I'm sure that's not what you
meant.
--
Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
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