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Re: [PATCH] Add native windows on arm64 support

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

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Anthony Roberts <anthony.roberts@linaro.org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Mike Holmes <mike.holmes@linaro.org>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Ian Lawrence Barwick <barwick@gmail.com>, Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, robhenry@microsoft.com, "Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz@postgresql.org>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, Lina Iyer <lina.iyer@linaro.org>
Date: 2023-08-31T05:06:53Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> writes:
> But, supposing Azure credits were suddenly available (just between
> you, me and the mailing list, I heard that this should be imminent as
> some kind of grant to PG US, as a result of the Cirrus thing), do we
> have a Windows-savvy volunteer to feed and water an animal?  I feel
> like this case is inevitable anyway because people in our own
> community are probably going to be using Windows ARM laptops sooner or
> later...

That's a good point.  The hardware resources to support a buildfarm
animal are really pretty trivial these days.  What is important is
an animal owner who is willing to help chase down problems when they
arise.

Maybe we just need to wait for some community members to acquire
those laptops.

			regards, tom lane

Commits

  1. MSVC: Support building for AArch64.

  2. Remove "#ifdef WIN32" guards from src/port/win32*.c

  3. Adjust XML test case to avoid unstable behavior.

  4. Enable RandomizedBaseAddress (ASLR) on Windows with MSVC builds