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Re: narwhal and PGDLLIMPORT

Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@gmail.com>

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From: Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2014-02-04T19:18:14Z
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  1. MinGW: Link with shell32.dll instead of shfolder.dll.

  2. Centralize getopt-related declarations in a new header file pg_getopt.h.

  3. Get rid of use of dlltool in Mingw builds.

  4. Export a few more symbols required for test_shm_mq module.

  5. Export set_latch_on_sigusr1 symbol for Windows.

  6. Use SHGetFolderPath instead of SHGetSpecialFolderPath to find the

On 02/04/2014 10:53 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes:
>> On 02/04/2014 09:34 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> My own opinion is that I've already wasted untold man-hours thanks to
>>> the random porting problems induced by Windows, a platform that I never
>>> have and never will care about personally.  I will *not* spend my own
>>> time doing tests that someone else could do.  If we can't get some
>>> effort contributed by someone who does use that platform, I'm personally
>>> prepared to declare the entire damn thing no longer supported.
>
>> Although that is obviously your prerogative it is important to remember
>> that Windows is easily the second most used version of PostgreSQL out
>> there (behind Linux).
>
> [ shrug... ]  If it's so widely used, why is it so hard to find somebody
> who's willing to put in some development effort for it?

Well, from what I have seen of the Windows world there is a fairly sharp 
demarcation between users and developers. So use does not necessarily 
mean developer knowledge.


>
> 			regards, tom lane
>
>


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