Re: narwhal and PGDLLIMPORT

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: narwhal and PGDLLIMPORT
Date: 2014-02-04 18:53:36
Message-ID: 27340.1391540016@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> On 02/04/2014 09:34 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> My own opinion is that I've already wasted untold man-hours thanks to
>> the random porting problems induced by Windows, a platform that I never
>> have and never will care about personally. I will *not* spend my own
>> time doing tests that someone else could do. If we can't get some
>> effort contributed by someone who does use that platform, I'm personally
>> prepared to declare the entire damn thing no longer supported.

> Although that is obviously your prerogative it is important to remember
> that Windows is easily the second most used version of PostgreSQL out
> there (behind Linux).

[ shrug... ] If it's so widely used, why is it so hard to find somebody
who's willing to put in some development effort for it?

regards, tom lane

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