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.
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.
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.
regards, tom lane