On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:39:50AM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > > Andrew Dunstan wrote: > >> Zdenek Kotala wrote: > >>> 2) pg_upgrade.sh > >>> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-12/msg00248.php > >>> > >>> Pg_upgrade.sh is shell script for catalog conversion. It works for > >>> 8.3->8.4 upgrade. It will be useful while we will not have better > >>> solution. Disadvantage is that it is korn shell script. The idea is to > >>> rewrite it in PERL which is more portable, but I'm not PERL expert and > >>> currently there is no workable solution. > >> > >> I have had a very brief look at this. Translation to perl doesn't look > >> difficult. I'll see what I can do during the next week or so. > > > > We don't require perl for any other feature, do we? Seems like a pretty > > onerous requireemnt for Windows in particular. We do use perl in the > > build scripts, but that's only required if you want to compile from > > source. > > 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. > > Much more reasonable than Korn shell in any case (or any shell for that > matter; I think anything is going to be more of a potentially painful > platform dependency than Perl). > > -- > Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ > PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support > +1
I agree with Alvaro. Perl is a breeze to install on Windows with Activestate and that using shell code to perform this task adds a huge platform dependency to the code. Perl is a known and well defined quantity for scripting. Cheers, Ken -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
