Re: [HACKERS] Platform Testing - Cygwin

From: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Jason Tishler <jason(at)tishler(dot)net>, Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>, "'pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org'" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "'pgsql-cygwin(at)postgresql(dot)org'" <pgsql-cygwin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Platform Testing - Cygwin
Date: 2001-12-15 11:16:44
Message-ID: 3C1B311C.A1A30A00@tm.ee
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Tom Lane wrote:
>
> Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee> writes:
> > I guess that having libpq (or any other client) retry the initial
> > connection would solve most of these short queue problems.
>
> And get us accused of DOS attempts. Repeated connection attempts
> after one has been rejected will be seen as unfriendly behavior by
> a lot of people.

AFAIK sendmail keeps trying for days :)

> Microsoft clearly does not want people running servers on the non-server
> versions of Windows, and I don't see why we should go out of our way
> to circumvent that.

Ok. Just a thought.

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Hannu

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