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

On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 9:01 AM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
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> On 01/21/2013 02:17 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
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>> On Jan 21, 2013 3:06 AM, "Craig Ringer" <craig@2ndquadrant.com
>> <mailto:craig@2ndquadrant.com>> wrote:
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>> > 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?
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>> > 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.
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>> I have suggested similar before, and been voted down :) iirc Andrew uses
>> it, no? Either way, the consensus earlier had been that as long as it
>> doesn't require major surgery or blocks something else, we should try to
>> keep it working. And as you say this sounds like something that can be
>> handled trivially, I think now is not the time.
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> No, I only use the client. But then I support plenty of things I don't use.

Oh, I somehow thought you were. And yes, we all support things we
don't use - but it certainly helps if there is *someone* out there who
uses it. Having a buildfarm animal (which we do) only goes so far...

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