Re: Windows Build System - My final thoughts

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Justin Clift <justin@postgresql.org>
Cc: Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2003-02-02T12:21:58Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Justin Clift wrote:
>   + Aside from all this, it might be nice to have a few Win32 specific 
> gui pieces in place at the time that PostgreSQL 7.4 Win32 is released. 
> Am sure they'll develop over time, but was thinking we should at least 
> make a good impression with the first release.  Hey, if we make a really 
> bad impression with the first release, then there might not be the 
> quadruple-zillion Windows PG users after all.  If that sounds like a 
> good idea, maybe adding the GUC variables "random_query_delay" 
> (minutes), "crash_how_often" (seconds), and "reboot_plus_corrupt_please" 
> (true/false)?

What we need is for the backend to query postgresql.org to set those
parameters, so we can control how many Win32 users adopt PostgreSQL.  :-)

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