Re: In-place upgrade: catalog side - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: In-place upgrade: catalog side
Date
Msg-id 200812051215.mB5CFVs11094@momjian.us
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In response to Re: In-place upgrade: catalog side  (Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com>)
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Greg Smith wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Dec 2008, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> > As the author of the original shell script, which was in 
> > /contrib/pg_upgrade, I think the code has grown to the point where it 
> > should be reimplemented in something like Perl.
> 
> Ah, there's the common ancestor I couldn't find.  Sheesh, you learn Perl 
> last month, and already you're a zealot.  That was fast.

Yes, I think that is accurate.  ;-)

I think the conversion to a more portable and powerful language is a
long-term goal, rather than something we have to do now.

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