On 2016-03-31 00:17:12 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Craig Ringer <cr...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > > On 31 March 2016 at 07:49, Josh berkus <j...@agliodbs.com> wrote: > >> So, can we stop supporting Windows native now? > > > Why would we want to? > > > The cost is small. > > Surely you jest. Windows is the single biggest PITA platform from a > portability perspective, and has been in every release cycle since we > first had a Windows port, and there is no close second.
I think to a good degree this is caused by a lot of the windows specific code systematically having a lower code quality than the rest of PG. Partially that's because it's code you don't stumble upon: If you read recv() in code somewher, you're not immediately continuing to read pgwin32_recv(). But a look at it'll make pretty much anybody weep. Besides a lot of it being halfway hidden away in port/, another issue is that people just see it as portability hacks, deserving less attention. If you want to make win32 a reasonable postgres port, you'd have to clean up a lot of stuff. We've had fundamental issues with the windows event models for *years* without anybody even taking a stab at fixing it. Greetings, Andres Freund -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
