Re: Auto-tuning work_mem and maintenance_work_mem

On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 12:39:04PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> 
> On 10/10/2013 12:28 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >
> >How do we handle the Python dependency, or is this all to be done in
> >some other language?  I certainly am not ready to take on that job.
> 
> 
> Without considering any wider question here, let me just note this:
> 
> Anything that can be done in this area in Python should be doable in
> Perl fairly simply. I don't think we should be adding any Python
> dependencies. For good or ill Perl has been used for pretty much all
> our complex scripting (pgindent, MSVC build system etc.)

Yes, but this is a run-time requirement, not build-time, and we have not
used Perl in that regard.

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