Bruce Momjian writes: > I know I have discouraged it because I think shell script language has a > good toolset for those applications. I have fixed all the spacing > issues.
My point is that it is not, for the reasons that I listed. Handling spaces is a small part of one of the several problems, there are problems with newlines, tabs, commas, slashes, quotes -- everytime you call sed or read you lose one character. > What language where you thinking of using? C? Yes, that way we can share code (pg_dumpall<->pg_dump, initdb<->postgres), use the established internationalization facilities, and use libpq directly in create* and drop*. > Also, it seems Win32 doesn't need these scripts, except initdb. The utility of these programs is independent of the platform. If we think pg_dumpall is not useful, then let's remove it. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
