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Re: Why do we have perl and sed versions of Gen_dummy_probes?

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

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From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Craig Ringer <craig.ringer@enterprisedb.com>
Date: 2021-05-11T17:22:11Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Hi,

On 2021-05-11 11:44:22 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Why would we? It's only used in Windows builds, and there's no VPATH
> there (sadly).

Is that really relevant? We'll need to update the file on any platform
when modifying the .sed, not just in windows.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

Commits

  1. Tweak generation of Gen_dummy_probes.pl

  2. Add a README and Makefile recipe for Gen_dummy_probes.pl

  3. Remove dependency on psed for MSVC builds.