Re: Re: Proposal for Allow postgresql.conf values to be changed via SQL [review]

From: Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila(at)huawei(dot)com>
To: "'Craig Ringer'" <craig(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>, "'Boszormenyi Zoltan'" <zb(at)cybertec(dot)at>
Cc: "'Tom Lane'" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "'Robert Haas'" <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Re: Proposal for Allow postgresql.conf values to be changed via SQL [review]
Date: 2013-01-21 03:17:42
Message-ID: 00ec01cdf785$e07caab0$a1760010$@kapila@huawei.com
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On Monday, January 21, 2013 7:36 AM Craig Ringer 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.

We have avoided the use of mkstemp with small native implementation so now
it won't be problem
for any platform.

With Regards,
Amit Kapila.

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