Re: BUG #17448: In Windows 10, version 1703 and later, huge_pages doesn't work.

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, okano(dot)naoki(at)jp(dot)fujitsu(dot)com, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: BUG #17448: In Windows 10, version 1703 and later, huge_pages doesn't work.
Date: 2022-04-01 05:59:22
Message-ID: YkaUuhwppy2hiBi9@paquier.xyz
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On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 07:03:09PM +0800, Julien Rouhaud wrote:
> There's no such indication on IsWindowsVersionOrGreater(), but after seeing
> various comments on forums from angry people, it may be a hint that it behaves
> similarly. I'm not sure what to do at this point, maybe just always use the
> flag (the PG_ version which may be 0), hoping that hopefully windows won't
> define it if it can't handle it?

Looking at the internals of versionhelpers.h, would it work to use as
arguments for IsWindowsVersionOrGreater() the following, in this
order? As of:
- HIBYTE(_WIN32_WINNT_WINTHRESHOLD)
- LOBYTE(_WIN32_WINNT_WINTHRESHOLD)
- 1703

Just to drop an idea.
--
Michael

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