Re: State of Beta 2

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > With all the discussion and pg_upgrade, I saw no one offer to work on
> > it.
> > Does someone want to convert it to Perl?  I think that would be a better
> > language than shell script for this purpose, and C is too low-level.
>
> The reason that it needs to be rewritten in C is that it needs access to
> internal stuff that the backend doesn't expose.  (For example, the
> transaction counter, end-of-WAL pointer, etc.)  I don't think Perl would
> offer anything except creating an entirely new dependency for Postgres.
> Also, C code would be easier to keep in sync with the backend code that
> accesses the same stuff.

True, but doing all that text manipulation is C is going to be very hard
to do and maintain.

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