>> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 7:43 PM, Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)postgresql(dot)org> wrote:
>>> So if my understating is correct, 1)Tomas Vondra commits to work on
>>> Windows support for 9.4, 2)on the assumption that one of Andrew
>>> Dunstan, Dave Page or Magnus Hagander will help him in Windows
>>> development.
>>>
>>> Ok? If so, I can commit the patch for 9.3 without Windows support. If
>>> not, I will move the patch to next CF (for 9.4).
>>>
>>> Please correct me if I am wrong.
>>
>> +1 for this approach. I agree with Dave and Magnus that we don't want
>> Windows to become a second-class platform, but this patch isn't making
>> it so. The #ifdef that peeks inside of an instr_time is already
>> there, and it's not Tomas's fault that nobody has gotten around to
>> fixing it before now.
>
> Right.
>
>> OTOH, I think that this sort of thing is quite wrong:
>>
>> +#ifndef WIN32
>> + " --aggregate-interval NUM\n"
>> + " aggregate data over NUM seconds\n"
>> +#endif
>>
>> The right approach if this can't be supported on Windows is to still
>> display the option in the --help output, and to display an error
>> message if the user tries to use it, saying that it is not currently
>> supported on Windows. That fact should also be mentioned in the
>> documentation.
>
> Agreed. This seems to be much better approach.
Here is the new patch.
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