Re: Re: Proposal for Allow postgresql.conf values to be changed via SQL [review]
Amit Kapila <amit.kapila@huawei.com>
From: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila@huawei.com>
To: "'Craig Ringer'" <craig@2ndQuadrant.com>, "'Boszormenyi Zoltan'" <zb@cybertec.at>
Cc: "'Tom Lane'" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, "'Robert Haas'" <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2013-01-21T03:17:42Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Monday, January 21, 2013 7:36 AM Craig Ringer wrote: > On 01/21/2013 10:03 AM, Craig Ringer wrote: > > On 01/19/2013 04:08 AM, Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote: > >> However, I am not sure whether Cygwin provides the mkstemp() call or > not. > >> Searching... Found bugzilla reports against mkstemp on Cygwin. > > Is Cygwin a platform that should be targeted for the server backend > > these days? > > > > I can understand making sure that libpq works on Cygwin, but is there > > any reason at all to run a Pg server backend on Cygwin rather than as > > native Windows binaries? > > I'm not suggesting immediately dropping working support, since this is > so trivially worked around. I'm just wondering why anybody cares about > the platform. We have avoided the use of mkstemp with small native implementation so now it won't be problem for any platform. With Regards, Amit Kapila.