On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 2:35 AM, Tatsuo Ishii <is...@postgresql.org> wrote: >>>>> This might be way more than we want to do, but there is an article >>>>> that describes some techniques for doing what seems to be missing >>>>> (AIUI): >>>>> >>>>> <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163996.aspx> >>>> Even this would be doable, I'm afraid it may not fit in 9.3 if we >>>> think about the current status of CF. So our choice would be: >>>> >>>> 1) Postpone the patch to 9.4 >>>> >>>> 2) Commit the patch in 9.3 without Windows support >>>> >>>> I personally am ok with #2. We traditionally avoid particular paltform >>>> specific features on PostgreSQL. However I think the policiy could be >>>> losen for contrib staffs. Also pgbench is just a client program. We >>>> could always use pgbench on UNIX/Linux if we truely need the feature. >>>> >>>> What do you think? >>> >>> Fair enough, I was just trying to point out alternatives. We have >>> committed platform-specific features before now. I hope it doesn't >>> just get left like this, though. > > We have committed platform-specific features before, but generally > only when it's not *possible* to do them for all platforms. For > example the posix_fadvise stuff isn't available on Windows at all, so > there isn't much we can do there.
Right - having platform specific features for other reasons like lack of time is a slippery slope in my opinion. We should not get into such a habit or Windows will quickly become a second class platform as far as PostgreSQL features are concerned. -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
