From: Dave Page <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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 21:27:28 +0100
Message-ID: <C0A3BAC0.D203%dpage@vale-housing.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15073.1149106242@sss.pgh.pa.us>
On 31/5/06 21:10, "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> 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.
It's not about a primarily GUI based OS not being able to do everything a
traditionally command line based OS can do on the command line, it's about
providing a solution that will work on either and remain portable. Whilst I
agree with your objection to using pg_lzcompress, I for one would rather see
a builtin solution that I know will work whatever platform/box I'm on
without having to go and download additional tools.
Regards, Dave.
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Reply to all the recipients using the --to and --cc options:
reply via email
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Cc: dpage@vale-housing.co.uk, tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us, mha@sollentuna.net, pgadmin@pse-consulting.de
Subject: Re: Possible TODO item: copy to/from pipe
In-Reply-To: <C0A3BAC0.D203%dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
This inbox is served by DDX for PostgreSQL; see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox