Re: [HACKERS] Re: pgsql: Add support for TCP keepalives on Windows, both for backend and

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, pgsql-committers <pgsql-committers@postgresql.org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-07-10T20:29:08Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> That laves the questions of docs - right now the docs just say it
>> works on windows. I guess we need to add some kind of disclaimer
>> around that, but the fact is that for 99+% of our windows users it
>> will work - since they use the binaries, and the binaries are built
>> with the full api - so we shouldn't make it *too* prominent..

> Wow, how would they know if the binaries are MinGW compiled?  Does it
> show in version()?

AFAIK there is nobody distributing mingw-built binaries.  If somebody
has one, they'd have built it themselves, and they'd know.

			regards, tom lane