Re: boolean in C

From: Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)Sun(dot)COM>
To: Grzegorz Jaskiewicz <gj(at)pointblue(dot)com(dot)pl>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Bernd Helmle <mailings(at)oopsware(dot)de>
Subject: Re: boolean in C
Date: 2009-07-16 15:30:30
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Grzegorz Jaskiewicz píše v čt 16. 07. 2009 v 14:59 +0100:

> >
> >> Why C89, and not C99 ? Virtually all compilers for last 4 years have/
> >> had C99 support.
> >
> > Well, I think we want to run on systems that are older than 4 years,
> > too.
>
>
> Sure, but that's probably less than 1% of all systems.
> The 4 years was a guess, I think its much more than that.

For example Solaris 8 is 9 years old and still is used in production. I
guess HP-UX is in same situation. And so on. I not able to say how many
PostgreSQL runs on them but how Tom mentioned there is no significant
reason to break old platform.

Zdenek

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