Chapman Flack <c...@anastigmatix.net> writes: > On 03/13/2018 01:50 PM, Stephen Frost wrote: >> I'll point out that PG does run on quite a few other OS's beyond Linux.
> I'll second that, as I think it is making my argument. When I can > supply three or four examples of semantic subtleties that undermine > PG's assumptions under Linux alone, the picture when broadened to > those quite-a-few other platforms as well certainly doesn't become > simpler! Well, to be blunt, what we target is POSIX-compatible systems. If you're telling us to worry about non-POSIX filesystem semantics, and your name is not Microsoft, it's going to be a hard sell. We have enough to do just keeping up with that scope of target systems. regards, tom lane