Re: Rewriting pg_upgrade - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Christopher Browne
Subject Re: Rewriting pg_upgrade
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Msg-id 60smmg2tkj.fsf@dev6.int.libertyrms.info
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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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pgman@candle.pha.pa.us (Bruce Momjian) writes:
> Jim C. Nasby wrote:
>> 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?

Because it's a REALLY BIG ball of mud to include as a core dependancy?

Don't get me wrong; I have several Emacs buffers presently open to
Perl programs; it's a _useful_ ball of mud.  But big ball of mud it
certainly is, and it seems unremarkable that there would be some
reluctance to be dependent on it.

There's a LOT of stuff going on with Perl (Parrot + Perl6), and for
the FreeBSD folk to be reluctant to "contract" to all that change
seems unsurprising.
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