Re: Windows now has fdatasync()

On Fri, 8 Apr 2022 at 05:41, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> writes:
> > On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 02:56:15PM +1200, Thomas Munro wrote:
> >> I propose that we drop support for Windows versions older than
> >> 10/Server 2016 in the PostgreSQL 16 cycle,
>
> Do we have any data on what people are actually using?
>

None that I know of. Anecdotally, we dropped support for pgAdmin on Windows
< 8 (2012 for the server edition), and had a single complaint - and the
user happily acknowledged they were on an old release and expected support
to be dropped sooner or later. Windows 8 was a pretty unpopular release, so
I would expect shifting to 10/2016+ for PG 16 would be unlikely to be a
major problem.

FWIW, Python dropped support for < 8/2012 with v3.9.


>
> > Do you think that we could raise the minimum C standard on WIN32 to
> > C11, at least for MSVC?
>
> As long as the C11-isms are in MSVC-only code, it seems like this is
> exactly equivalent to setting a minimum MSVC version.  I don't see
> an objection-in-principle there, it's just a practical question of
> how far back is reasonable to support MSVC versions.  (That's very
> distinct from how far back we need the built code to run.)
>
>                         regards, tom lane
>
>
>

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