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.
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