| 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 22:21:33 |
| Message-ID: | 200309272221.h8RMLXV17924@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> The reason that it needs to be rewritten in C is that it needs access to
> >> internal stuff that the backend doesn't expose.
>
> > True, but doing all that text manipulation is C is going to be very hard
> > to do and maintain.
>
> Text manipulation? I don't think that pg_upgrade has to do much text
> manipulation. (The shell-script version might do so, but that's only
> because it has to cast the problem in terms of program I/O.)
Uh, it seems to have to push a lot of data around, filename/relname
mapping, etc. It almost wants a database.
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