Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > Andrew Dunstan wrote: >> Zdenek Kotala wrote: >>> 2) pg_upgrade.sh >>> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-12/msg00248.php >>> >>> Pg_upgrade.sh is shell script for catalog conversion. It works for >>> 8.3->8.4 upgrade. It will be useful while we will not have better >>> solution. Disadvantage is that it is korn shell script. The idea is to >>> rewrite it in PERL which is more portable, but I'm not PERL expert and >>> currently there is no workable solution. >> >> I have had a very brief look at this. Translation to perl doesn't look >> difficult. I'll see what I can do during the next week or so. > > We don't require perl for any other feature, do we? Seems like a pretty > onerous requireemnt for Windows in particular. We do use perl in the > build scripts, but that's only required if you want to compile from > source.
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. Much more reasonable than Korn shell in any case (or any shell for that matter; I think anything is going to be more of a potentially painful platform dependency than Perl). -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
