Re: intermittent failures in Cygwin from select_parallel tests

From: Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: intermittent failures in Cygwin from select_parallel tests
Date: 2021-06-23 03:02:28
Message-ID: 20210623030228.GA1421448@rfd.leadboat.com
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On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 08:18:42AM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> On 6/22/21 2:42 AM, Noah Misch wrote:
> > I was wondering about suggesting some kind of
> >> official warning, but I guess the manual already covers it with this
> >> 10 year old notice. I don't know much about Windows or Cygwin so I'm
> >> not sure if it needs updating or not, but I would guess that there are
> >> no longer any such systems?
> >>
> >> <productname>Cygwin</productname> is not recommended for running a
> >> production server, and it should only be used for running on
> >> older versions of <productname>Windows</productname> where
> >> the native build does not work.
> > I expect native builds work on all Microsoft-supported Windows versions, so +1
> > for removing everything after the comma.
>
> If we just want to declare Cygwin unsupported I can halt lorikeet and we
> can be done with it.

No way. lorikeet is valuable.

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