X-Original-To: pgsql-hackers-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2C9A9FA5E9 for ; Wed, 31 May 2006 17:10:53 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 68597-09 for ; Wed, 31 May 2006 17:10:44 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9944A9FA5E1 for ; Wed, 31 May 2006 17:10:44 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k4VKAgbT015074; Wed, 31 May 2006 16:10:42 -0400 (EDT) To: Dave Page cc: Magnus Hagander , Andreas Pflug , pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Possible TODO item: copy to/from pipe In-reply-to: References: Comments: In-reply-to Dave Page message dated "Wed, 31 May 2006 20:55:17 +0100" Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 16:10:42 -0400 Message-ID: <15073.1149106242@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200605/1354 X-Sequence-Number: 84219 Dave Page 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