Re: yum repo, pgloader

On 07/26/2016 12:54 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
> On 7/22/2016 5:50 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote:
>> On 07/22/2016 05:24 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
>>> I note that pgloader is in the yum repo for Postgresql 9.2 on Centos 6,
>>> but not 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, wondering if there's a reason it was dropped?
>>
>> If I where to hazard a guess it would have to do with pgloader
>> migrating from being written in Python to being written in Common
>> Lisp, that occurred at roughly the same time.
>
> While I could get the common lisp version working on my systems, I don't
> want to have to support it in our overseas factories where we need this
> functionality, so I'm trying to make a go of using the older v2, written
> in Python, as introducing a completely new language for a single tool
> in our production operations stack is untenable.

Are the overseas systems running Centos 6 also?

If so, can't you copy over the compiled pgloader binary from your
machine to theirs?

>
> However, I can't seem to find any traces of the documentation for the
> python version other than the man page.
>
>
> --
> john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz
>

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