| From: | Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com> |
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| To: | Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Simple postgresql.conf wizard |
| Date: | 2008-12-01 17:34:08 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.GSO.4.64.0812011215080.13553@westnet.com |
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On Mon, 1 Dec 2008, Dave Page wrote:
> It's going to be of little use to 99% of Windows users anyway as it's
> written in Python. What was wrong with C?
It's 471 lines of Python code that leans heavily on that language's
Dictionary type to organize everything. Had I insisted on writing
directly to C first, it would have be of no use to 100% of all users in
the 8.4 timeframe because it wouldn't be even remotely close to finished
by now.
I'd ultimately like to use the Python version as a spec to produce a C
implementation, because that's the only path to get something like this
integrated into initdb itself. There were just too many thing to get
under control for that to practical just yet.
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* Greg Smith gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD
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