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Re: narwhal and PGDLLIMPORT

Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>

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From: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2014-02-04T20:04:14Z
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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 11:17 AM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:

>>>> 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?
>

Because Windows developers get paid and have better things to do than 
interact with a bunch of Open Source people and their opinions. Let's be 
honest, all of us here are not the easiest to work with and we are here 
largely due to an ideology. Why would a Windows developer bother?

I know lots of Windows Developers and most of them don't follow anywhere 
near the ideology we do. I know very few (read 0) Windows developers 
that do it for fun (I am not saying they don't have fun. I am saying 
they don't do it for fun). They do it for their career.

Heck, look back through the years at our archives. Nobody really thought 
that we would somehow bring windows developers into the fold if we 
ported to that platform. It was a market share play and it worked. 
However, now we are paying the price for it.

To be perfectly frank, the first thing I do when a customer calls and 
says we are on Windows is tell them I will spend our relationship 
pushing them to move PostgreSQL to Linux. It works over time for the 
most part but not on all.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake




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