Re: Rewriting pg_upgrade (was Re: State of Beta 2) - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Rewriting pg_upgrade (was Re: State of Beta 2)
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Msg-id 200309281638.h8SGc3T09851@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Rewriting pg_upgrade (was Re: State of Beta 2)  ("Jim C. Nasby" <jim@nasby.net>)
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Re: Rewriting pg_upgrade (was Re: State of Beta 2)
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Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 10:42:02PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >
> > > Isn't Perl pretty ubiquitous on "Unix" now, though?  Except maybe
> > > Unixware....
> >
> > I know that Solaris now has it included by default ...
>
> FWIW, FreeBSD just removed it (in the 5.x versions). Of course you can
> still easily install it from ports.

Interesting.  Why would they remove it?

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