Re: pg_upgrade project status

Dave Page píše v út 27. 01. 2009 v 14:56 +0000:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Alvaro Herrera
> <alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> > Dave Page wrote:
> >> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Alvaro Herrera
> >> <alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > I think it's fairly easy to install Perl on Windows actually.  It
> >> > doesn't sound too onerous a requirement if you want in-place upgrade;
> >> > actually it looks a very reasonable one.
> >>
> >> There are installers for it, but given that we made a point of porting
> >> everything to C to avoid using any scripting languages on end-user
> >> machines when we ported to Windows, it seems strange to relax that
> >> 'policy' now for convenience.
> >
> > If you prefer to not have pg_upgrade at all for 8.4, feel free to
> > request it to be written in C ...  But I'm sure that's not what you
> > meant.
> 
> I'd rather it was written in an appropriate language before feature
> freeze, not in a language that makes it easier for the author but a
> shade harder for thousands of users three months into feature freeze.

The script is one year old. It is integrated in the OpenSolaris and
Solaris 10U6. I presented the script on PGCon2008. Everybody could
complain about it long time ago. And from my point of view it is first
step then better solution will be developed in C - (see my presentation
- "initdb upgrade" command).
Zdenek