go

When I started developping pg_back, I wanted to keep it a simple as possible, by limiting its features. It also limited contributions, and at some point by accepting some useful contributions, the script grew and became not so simple. We could go on with the shell script and try to carefully control its growth, but it will sooner or later reach some limits of shell scripting. After some time without making it evolve, I got interested in the Go programming language. It appeared that pg_back could be a good candidate projet to let me learn Go. This is why pg_back version 2 is written in Go. ...

The Go language has been around for quite some time and one finds more and more programs written in Go. The Go compiler and tools can be installed using the packages of the Linux distribution, but the easiest way to have the latest version is to use the official compiled tools. The version of the golang-go package in Debian stable, 1.11, is too old, so I installed the official binaries this way. ...