On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 17:10 -0800, Josh Berkus wrote: > Greg Smith wrote: > > -Stepping back a bit from this particular code, is something in Python > like this ever going to be appropriate to ship as a contrib module?
I think python should be as good as any relatively widespread language. Unless we require all contrib to be in C. > There seems to be a bit more traction in this community for using Perl > for such things; I might do a Perl port of this one day but that's not > going to happen soon. The advantage of python over perl is that anybody who knows at least one programming language is able to learn basic python in an afternoon. > If you do a python version, others will write versions in other > languages. Yeah, if python is not accepted as contrib, then it can probably be rewritten in C once it has stabilized enough. > I personally don't really care; Perl's main advantage is > that it's pre-installed on more OSes than Python is. I think most (if not all) modern OS's standard setup includes both perl and python. Except of course windows which probably includes neither. ------------------------------------------ Hannu Krosing http://www.2ndQuadrant.com PostgreSQL Scalability and Availability Services, Consulting and Training -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
