| From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: Auto-tuning work_mem and maintenance_work_mem |
| Date: | 2013-10-10 16:59:39 |
| Message-ID: | 5256DCFB.1060903@dunslane.net |
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On 10/10/2013 12:45 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 12:39:04PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> On 10/10/2013 12:28 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>> How do we handle the Python dependency, or is this all to be done in
>>> some other language? I certainly am not ready to take on that job.
>>
>> Without considering any wider question here, let me just note this:
>>
>> Anything that can be done in this area in Python should be doable in
>> Perl fairly simply. I don't think we should be adding any Python
>> dependencies. For good or ill Perl has been used for pretty much all
>> our complex scripting (pgindent, MSVC build system etc.)
> Yes, but this is a run-time requirement, not build-time, and we have not
> used Perl in that regard.
>
Nor Python. If we want to avoid added dependencies, we would need to use C.
cheers
andrew
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