| From: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Craig Ringer <craig(dot)ringer(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: Why do we have perl and sed versions of Gen_dummy_probes? |
| Date: | 2021-05-06 04:59:14 |
| Message-ID: | 20210506045914.p7iip4d2fqvi3oln@alap3.anarazel.de |
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Hi,
On 2021-05-06 00:18:12 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> > I understand why we don't want to rely on sed because of windows - but
> > it's far from obvious why we can't just use the .pl variant all the
> > time?
>
> Perl is not considered a hard build requirement on non-Windows.
Oops, forgot that.
> We could dodge that by shipping a pre-built dummy probes.h,
> but that doesn't really seem like a cleaner way than what's
> there now.
I tried to regenerate Gen_dummy_probes.pl using s2p - which doesn't seem
to exist for modern versions of perl anymore :(
> Also, as I read it, Gen_dummy_probes.sed is useful in any case as
> being the "source code" for Gen_dummy_probes.pl. You'd need some
> other form of documentation if you removed it.
:/
Greetings,
Andres Freund
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