Re: Remove Windows crash dump support?

On 12/23/2015 06:14 PM, Craig Ringer wrote:
> On 22 December 2015 at 23:48, Alex Ignatov <a(dot)ignatov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru
> <mailto:a(dot)ignatov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>> wrote:
>
> I think that you can debug crash dump since windbg exists.
>
>
> Nobody in their right mind uses windbg though. Visual Studio is really
> where it's at and the Express versions make it much more practical.
>
> You can't even install Debugging Tools for Windows and Windbg standalone
> anymore.
>
> Also I think that Postgres on Windows number of instalations is so
> tiny because people even today think that it is not so solid as
> unix version thats why you think that nobody use your code ;).
>
>
> I disagree. Windows Pg users are often at bigger companies and don't
> talk about PostgreSQL as much. Often for fear of reprisals from other
> database vendors they have ongoing relationships with. At least that's
> been my experience and I'm sure EDB folks will concur.

I can speak from experience as well that Windows is unfortunately one of
our larger installations. The fact is, many people run PostgreSQL on
Windows and many never speak of it.

JD

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