From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Dave Page <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <mha@sollentuna.net>
Cc: Andreas Pflug <pgadmin@pse-consulting.de>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Possible TODO item: copy to/from pipe
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 16:10:42 -0400
Message-ID: <15073.1149106242@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C0A3B335.D1F4%dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>
References: <C0A3B335.D1F4%dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>
Dave Page <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk> writes:
> Exactly my point; how many production Windows servers do you have with gzip
> anywhere near them? Andreas' point about pipes is also valid though - it's
> simply not the norm on Windows as I found when we were porting Slony
> (more.exe barfs at >8MB being pipe in).
I don't see that we should allow Windows' deficiencies to be an argument
against providing a facility that would be useful on all our other platforms.
regards, tom lane
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