Re: Auto-tuning work_mem and maintenance_work_mem

On 10/10/2013 12:45 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 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.
>


Nor Python. If we want to avoid added dependencies, we would need to use C.

cheers

andrew