Re: pg_upgrade project status

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> 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.

I'd rather it was written in an appropriate language before feature
freeze, not in a language that makes it easier for the author but a
shade harder for thousands of users three months into feature freeze.

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Dave Page
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