Horton

Re: Re: Proposal for Allow postgresql.conf values to be changed via SQL [review]

Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com>

View thread View on postgr.es
From: Craig Ringer <craig@2ndQuadrant.com>
To: Boszormenyi Zoltan <zb@cybertec.at>
Cc: Amit kapila <amit.kapila@huawei.com>, "'Tom Lane'" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, "'Robert Haas'" <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2013-01-21T02:05:44Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 01/21/2013 10:03 AM, Craig Ringer wrote:
> On 01/19/2013 04:08 AM, Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote:
>> However, I am not sure whether Cygwin provides the mkstemp() call or not.
>> Searching... Found bugzilla reports against mkstemp on Cygwin.
> Is Cygwin a platform that should be targeted for the server backend
> these days?
>
> I can understand making sure that libpq works on Cygwin, but is there
> any reason at all to run a Pg server backend on Cygwin rather than as
> native Windows binaries?

I'm not suggesting immediately dropping working support, since this is
so trivially worked around. I'm just wondering why anybody cares about
the platform.

-- 
 Craig Ringer                   http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
 PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services