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Re: Cygwin cleanup

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

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From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Cc: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2022-08-04T04:22:55Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Hi,

On 2022-08-04 16:16:06 +1200, Thomas Munro wrote:
> Ok, that's slightly reassuring, so maybe we *can* fix this, but I'm
> one step closer to what Tom said, re wasting developer time...

It might be worth checking whether the cygwin installer, which at some point
at least allowed installing postgres, has download numbers available anywhere.

It's possible we could e.g. get away with just allowing libpq to be built.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

Commits

  1. Use unnamed POSIX semaphores on Cygwin.

  2. meson: Basic cygwin support

  3. meson: Mark PROVE as not required