Re: Action requested - Application Softblock implemented | Issue report ID341057

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 2:27 AM, Heikki Linnakangas
> <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>> On 04.10.2011 22:46, Seiko Ishida (MP Tech Consulting LLC) wrote:
>>>
>>> Our team drives the bug notification activity with our valued Windows
>>> partners. This email is to notify you that PostgreSQL's application/driver
>>> experienced compatibility issue(s) during internal Microsoft testing and has
>>> been blocked. Please note that this block may already be in the latest
>>> Windows Developer Preview build so your prompt attention to the issue is
>>> much appreciated.
>>>
>>> ...
>>> Here are the details of the Softblock implementations:
>>> Compatibility Issue:
>>> Product name:  PostgreSQL 8.2
>>
>> Version 8.2 is quite old, and the community support for it will end in
>> December. I don't think anyone cares if it works on Windows 8. If you could
>> test with PostgreSQL 9.1, that would be great.
>
> On the other hand, it seems as though they've identified the offending
> code, so maybe it wouldn't be that much work to fix:

This is in the old 8.2 MSI installer, which doesn't even support
Windows 7 (and would require more work than just this to do so). The
last ever release of 8.2 will happen long before Windows 8 is going to
go GA - it's safe to say this version is never going to be supported
on Windows 8.

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