Re: Clean up some old cruft related to Windows

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
To: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2020-02-18T07:44:59Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 01:46:33PM +0900, Kyotaro Horiguchi wrote:
> I found some similar places by grep'ing for windows version names the
> whole source tree.
> 
> - The comment for trapsig is mentioning win98/Me/NT/2000/XP.

Let's refresh the comment here, as per the following:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/xdkz3x12(v=vs.140)

> - We don't need the (only) caller site of IsWindows7OrGreater()?

The compiled code can still run with Windows Server 2008. 

> - The comment for AddUserToTokenDacl() is mentioning "XP/2K3,
>   Vista/2008".

Keeping some context is still good here IMO.

> - InitializeLDAPConnection dynamically loads WLDAP32.DLL for Windows
>   2000. It could either be statically loaded or could be left as it
>   is, but the comment seems to need a change in either case.

Looks safer to me to keep it.

> - The comment for IsoLocaleName mentioning Vista and Visual Studio
>   2012.

It is good to keep some history in this context.

> - install-windows.sgml is mentioning "XP and later" around line 117.

But this still applies to XP, even if compilation is supported from
Windows 7.

> - installation.sgml is mentioning NT/2000/XP as platforms that don't
>   support adduser/su, command.

No objections to simplify that a bit.

Attached is a simplified version.  It is smaller than the previous
one, but that's already a good cut.  I have also done some testing
with the service manager to check after pipe_read_line(), and that
works.

Thoughts?
--
Michael

Commits

  1. Doc: Fix instructions to control build environment with MSVC

  2. Clean up some code, comments and docs referring to Windows 2000 and older