| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, Jesse Morris <jmorris(at)coverity(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: BUG #5065: pg_ctl start fails as administrator, with "could not locate matching postgres executable" |
| Date: | 2009-11-16 21:39:15 |
| Message-ID: | 12222.1258407555@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> Which leads to the question - do we want to back out the
>> patch, have 8.2 keep working on that, and having 8.2 fail in the few
>> unusual scenarios we have now, or do we also backpatch the requirement
>> to run on win2k or later?
> I think the safest course is to revert the fix and keep 8.2 working on
> all platforms on which it used to work.
+1 --- since this seems to be a corner case, desupporting old Windows
versions in a minor update doesn't seem like the thing to do.
Sorry for creating work for you, Magnus.
regards, tom lane
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