On 22 December 2015 at 23:46, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > > In which version(s) of Windows was this improvement added?
Vista and Server 2008 (original, not R2). https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb787181(v=vs.85).aspx Win7 and Server 2003 are already irrelevant now, and will be absurdly so by the time Pg 9.6 comes out. The windows feature works better than the in-application crash dump. It can limit the number of dumps, for one thing, and it doesn't require a sane and intact stack to work. > Even if it's all good in recent Windows, the impression I have is that an > awful lot of people are still running older versions, so I'd be pretty > hesitant to just drop the code. Yeah, if it was new in Win2012 I'd agree, but it's been around since 2008. > Also, AFAICS it's pretty self-contained > and hence not much of a drag on development. Is there any positive reason > to remove it? Not really. It also does nothing by default, so it's pretty harmless and mostly dead code. I just thought it was worth bringing up that there's a better way to do it now and nobody seems to use it anyway. -- Craig Ringer http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services
