Re: State of Beta 2
От | Ron Johnson |
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Тема | Re: State of Beta 2 |
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Msg-id | 1064701668.23957.96.camel@haggis обсуждение исходный текст |
Ответ на | Re: State of Beta 2 (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>) |
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Re: State of Beta 2
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Список | pgsql-general |
On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 17:13, Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes: > > Tom Lane wrote: > >> The reason that it needs to be rewritten in C is that it needs access to > >> internal stuff that the backend doesn't expose. > > > True, but doing all that text manipulation is C is going to be very hard > > to do and maintain. > > Text manipulation? I don't think that pg_upgrade has to do much text > manipulation. (The shell-script version might do so, but that's only > because it has to cast the problem in terms of program I/O.) There's always the general point that C has more pitfalls (mainly from pointers/free()/malloc(), and HLLs do more for you, thus you have to code less, and, consequently, there are fewer bugs. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. ron.l.johnson@cox.net Jefferson, LA USA 484,246 sq mi are needed for 6 billion people to live, 4 persons per lot, in lots that are 60'x150'. That is ~ California, Texas and Missouri. Alternatively, France, Spain and The United Kingdom.
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