Re: Cleaning up historical portability baggage

From: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Cleaning up historical portability baggage
Date: 2022-08-06 00:44:48
Message-ID: CA+hUKGK=f5H6wdHyvhU0o3gXjn7Yg8QOpUe69H114Mb=4nJTbQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Sat, Aug 6, 2022 at 12:03 PM Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY currently is only defined for mingw as the configure test is
> gated to windows - that's somewhat weird imo. mingw has had it since at least
> 2007. The attached patch makes the gettimeofday() fallback specific to msvc.

+1

> I've renamed the file to win32gettimeofday now. I wonder if we should rename
> files that are specific to msvc to indicate that? But that's for later.

+1, I was thinking the same.

> 1-arg gettimeofday() hasn't been around in a *long* while from what I can
> see. So I've removed that configure test.

+1

LGTM.

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