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.
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net