On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 9:41 PM, Christopher Browne <cbbro...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote: >> How do we handle the Python dependency, or is this all to be done in >> some other language? I certainly am not ready to take on that job. > > I should think it possible to reimplement it in C. It was considerably > useful to start by implementing in Python, as that evades various sorts > of efforts needed in C (e.g. - memory allocation, picking a hash table > implementation), and allows someone to hack on it without needing to > run through a recompile every time something is touched.
I think in the context of this problem, reimplementing that from python to C is the easiest part. Actually figuring out what the tool should *do* and how it should do it is the hard part. -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
