Dave Page wrote: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Alvaro Herrera > <alvhe...@commandprompt.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. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
