Peter Eisentraut wrote: > 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.
I think the first two targets for C-ification would be pg_dumpall and initdb. The others have SQL equivalents. Maybe pg_ctl too. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 853-3000 + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
