| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, 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 21:20:16 |
| Message-ID: | 20091116212016.GH3669@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Magnus Hagander wrote:
> So, the new API function requires Windows 2000 or more, and I think
> the reason it's failing is that the headers in 8.2 don't specify that
> at this point. Which means that 8.2 today theoretically at least runs
> on NT4. 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.
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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
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