On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com> wrote: > 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.
I'd rather it was written in an appropriate language before feature freeze, not in a language that makes it easier for the author but a shade harder for thousands of users three months into feature freeze. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
