Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> With all the discussion and pg_upgrade, I saw no one offer to work on
> it.
> Does someone want to convert it to Perl? I think that would be a better
> language than shell script for this purpose, and C is too low-level.
The reason that it needs to be rewritten in C is that it needs access to
internal stuff that the backend doesn't expose. (For example, the
transaction counter, end-of-WAL pointer, etc.) I don't think Perl would
offer anything except creating an entirely new dependency for Postgres.
Also, C code would be easier to keep in sync with the backend code that
accesses the same stuff.
regards, tom lane