Re: Roadmap for a Win32 port

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Bruce Momjian writes:
> 
> > I know I have discouraged it because I think shell script language has a
> > good toolset for those applications.  I have fixed all the spacing
> > issues.
> 
> My point is that it is not, for the reasons that I listed.  Handling
> spaces is a small part of one of the several problems, there are problems
> with newlines, tabs, commas, slashes, quotes -- everytime you call sed or
> read you lose one character.
> 
> > What language where you thinking of using?  C?
> 
> Yes, that way we can share code (pg_dumpall<->pg_dump, initdb<->postgres),
> use the established internationalization facilities, and use libpq
> directly in create* and drop*.
> 
> > 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 think the first two targets for C-ification would be pg_dumpall and
initdb.  The others have SQL equivalents.  Maybe pg_ctl too.

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