Re: pg_upgrade project status

Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 09:48 -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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>>> We don't require perl for any other feature, do we? Seems like a 
>>> pretty onerous requireemnt for Windows in particular. We do use perl 
>>> in the build scripts, but that's only required if you want to compile 
>>> from source.
>>>       
>> Well, from that POV the only portable thing is to translate it into C. 
>> That's just a whole lot more work (remember initdb?). The perl port for 
>> Windows is easily installable, widely used and well regarded. It doesn't 
>> strike me as too high a price to pay for the ability to do upgrades, but 
>> I'll defer to more Windows-centric commenters.
>>     
>
> Actually as much as perl is ubiquitous it isn't. What version of perl
> shall we require? Will we require other modules? Does that version work
> on all our supported platforms (HPUX, NETBSD?)
>
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>   


That's what my brief examination of the script was about - looking to 
see if it could be translated portably. I think it very probably can. I 
suspect it won't need any modules at all. I suspect any

cheers

andrew