Re: Windows 2000 Support

> Hi,
>
> I just finished setting up a new buildfarm member (Bandicoot)
> running Windows 2000 Pro. Aside from the fact that it now fails
> with the same cyptic pg_regress error as seen on Snake, it also
> became apparent that CVS HEAD won't run properly on an unpatched
> Windows 2000 (initdb - and probably pg_ctl - fails when trying to
> dynamically load advapi32.dll which is used to shed excess
> privileges). This was solved by the installation of service pack 4.
> Unfortunately I couldn't find a way to catch the error - it seems
> to kill the app and throw a messagebox with a cryptic message.
>
> Given that you have to be clinically insane to run Win2K without
> patching it to the hilt I'm not overly concerned by this (and will
> add appropriate checks to pgInstaller), but it's probably worth
> mentioning that our minimum supported platform is Windows 2000 Pro
> with Service Pack 4 from 8.2.

Late into the game, yes, I definitely think this is a reasonable
requirement. (FWIW, that's the same requirements as MS put on SQL
Server)

But yes, this should probably go in the release notes.

(btw, clinically insane without patching it.. And obviously you didn't
patch yours? :-P)

//Magnus