On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 9:01 AM, Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> wrote: > > On 01/21/2013 02:17 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote: > >> >> >> On Jan 21, 2013 3:06 AM, "Craig Ringer" <cr...@2ndquadrant.com >> <mailto:cr...@2ndquadrant.com>> wrote: >> > >> > 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? >> > >> > 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. >> >> 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. >> > > 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... -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
