Re: Roadmap for a Win32 port

Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> >> Also, it seems Win32 doesn't need these scripts, except initdb.
> 
> > The utility of these programs is independent of the platform.  If we think
> > pg_dumpall is not useful, then let's remove it.
> 
> I have been seriously considering converting pg_dumpall to C anyway,
> because it's already *very* messy, and I don't see any reasonable
> way to make it support dumping per-database and per-user config
> settings.  (Do you really want to try to parse array values in a
> shell script?)
> 
> (I'd actually consider making pg_dumpall a part of the pg_dump
> executable; then it could invoke pg_dump as a subroutine call...)
> 
> If Peter's got the time/energy to convert 'em all, I'm for it.

Yea, shame it will now take 15 lines of C code to do what we could do in
1 line of shell script but I don't see any other option.

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