Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> Yea, shame it will now take 15 lines of C code to do what we could do in
> 1 line of shell script but I don't see any other option.
In places we are using 15 lines of shell to do what would take 1 line
in C ;-). Yes, it'll probably be bigger overall, but I think you are
overstating the penalty.
regards, tom lane