There is likely to be a long period where many Windows packages for PostgreSQL are 32 bit only. Due to the way Windows searches for DLLs, Windows installations of PostgreSQL tend to install libpq.dll into the bin/ directory of the installation. This will cause obvious problems with 32 bit packages like pgAdmin which are currently included in that directory in most installers, to avoid the need to have multiple copies of DLLs around.
After chatting with Magnus, we feel that a good solution would be to rename libpq on Win64 to libpq64.dll to distinguish it from the 32 bit equivalent. It would also be a nice touch to have the 64 bit MSVC build system create both the 64 and 32 bit libraries. That would make it much easier for those of us that need to combine 32 and 64 bit packages together, saving the pain of building 32 and 64 bit separately. Thoughts? -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
