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Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 21:27:28 +0100
Subject: Re: Possible TODO item: copy to/from pipe 
From: Dave Page <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
CC: Magnus Hagander <mha@sollentuna.net>,
	Andreas Pflug <pgadmin@pse-consulting.de>, <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
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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.