Re: [PATCH] "could not reattach to shared memory" on Windows

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Tsutomu Yamada <tsutomu(at)sraoss(dot)co(dot)jp>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] "could not reattach to shared memory" on Windows
Date: 2009-08-10 15:29:58
Message-ID: 4A803CF6.7010502@dunslane.net
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Dave Page wrote:
>> If it's at all hard to do, I could see deprecating 8.2 for Windows
>> instead.
>>
>
> I could most definitely agree with that on a personal level - no more
> Mingw/msys builds to maintain :-)
>
> Alas, it's probably not practical to drop it without inconveniencing a
> great many Windows users.
>
>

I hope you're not suggesting we drop Mingw/MSys as a build platform,
even if you personally don't want to build with it. I would have found
it much harder to do parallel restore for Windows (which works quite
differently from Unix, and so had to be specifically developed) if I had
been forced to use the MS tool set with which I don't ever otherwise work.

I don't think we should deprecate 8.2 on Windows unless we really can't
backport this fix reasonably.

cheers

andrew

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