Re: intermittent failures in Cygwin from select_parallel tests

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>
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 12:11:43
Message-ID: 5e6797e9-bc26-ced7-6c9c-59bca415598b@dunslane.net
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-hackers


On 6/22/21 11:02 PM, Noah Misch wrote:
> 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.

OK, no problem. Leaving it running is not a big deal.

cheers

andrew

--
Andrew Dunstan
EDB: https://www.enterprisedb.com

In response to

Browse pgsql-hackers by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message tanghy.fnst@fujitsu.com 2021-06-23 12:43:53 RE: Support tab completion for upper character inputs in psql
Previous Message Simon Riggs 2021-06-23 11:56:51 Re: Doc chapter for Hash Indexes