Re: Pipe fixes for win32 services

From: "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Bruce Momjian" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Pipe fixes for win32 services
Date: 2004-07-24 18:24:50
Message-ID: 6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCE34BF10@algol.sollentuna.se
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>Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>> This needs to be applied soon so the installer can be tested.
>
>I can't speak to the details of the Windows process-launch code,
>but it looked okay to me otherwise.
>
>One point: if I understood correctly, this is necessary only for
>Windows 2000, because we've already blown off the thought of
>supporting any older Windows versions, no?

No, NT4 is also on our list of supported versions.

> If we later decide
>we can't support W2K either, this would be a pretty large chunk
>of code that we could pull out. Please make sure it's clearly
>labeled as "useful only as long as we support Windows 2000".

It is, in the comment preceding the code.

//Magnus

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