Re: Streaming replication and non-blocking I/O

Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>

To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2010-01-15T19:51:14Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

2010/1/15 Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>:
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>
> Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>>
>> Do people still use MinGW for any real work? Could we just drop
>> walreceiver support from MinGW builds?
>>
>> Or maybe we should consider splitting walreceiver into two parts after
>> all. Only the bare minimum that needs to access libpq would go into the
>> shared object, and the rest would be linked with the backend as usual.
>>
>>
>
> I use MinGW when doing Windows work (e.g. the threading piece in parallel pg_restore).  And I think it is generally desirable to be able to build on Windows using an open source tool chain. I'd want a damn good reason to abandon its use. And I don't like the idea of not supporting walreceiver on it either. Please find another solution if possible.
>

Yeah. FWIW, I don't use mingw do do any windows development, but
definitely +1 on working hard to keep support for it if at all
possible.


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