| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, "Sofer, Yuval" <Yuval_Sofer(at)bmc(dot)com>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: postgres crashes - could not reattach to shared memory |
| Date: | 2010-05-02 18:41:58 |
| Message-ID: | 14852.1272825718@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> writes:
> On 5/2/10, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> If we take seriously the proposition that we're still supporting 8.2
>> on Windows, we probably ought to do something about that. If we don't,
>> we need to officially deprecate that version.
> That's the last non-msvc++ version. Personally I'd love to drop it so
> i can get rid of mingw/msys and move entirely to vc++ for Win32 and
> Win64.
> I'm not so sure it's fair to the users though.
Well, we did promise that Windows 8.2 would have the same lifespan as
8.2 on other platforms:
http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.865
The planned EOL is only a year and a half away anyway. OTOH, if it's
doubling your effort to build Windows binary distributions, maybe
it's not worth continuing to support it.
regards, tom lane
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