From: | Ron Johnson <ron(dot)l(dot)johnson(at)cox(dot)net> |
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To: | PgSQL General ML <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: State of Beta 2 |
Date: | 2003-09-27 22:27:48 |
Message-ID: | 1064701668.23957.96.camel@haggis |
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On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 17:13, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> The reason that it needs to be rewritten in C is that it needs access to
> >> internal stuff that the backend doesn't expose.
>
> > True, but doing all that text manipulation is C is going to be very hard
> > to do and maintain.
>
> Text manipulation? I don't think that pg_upgrade has to do much text
> manipulation. (The shell-script version might do so, but that's only
> because it has to cast the problem in terms of program I/O.)
There's always the general point that C has more pitfalls (mainly
from pointers/free()/malloc(), and HLLs do more for you, thus you
have to code less, and, consequently, there are fewer bugs.
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