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

On 01/21/2013 02:17 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
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> On Jan 21, 2013 3:06 AM, "Craig Ringer" <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com
> <mailto:craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>> wrote:
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> > 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?
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> > > 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?
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> > 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.
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> I have suggested similar before, and been voted down :) iirc Andrew
> uses it, no? Either way, the consensus earlier had been that as long
> as it doesn't require major surgery or blocks something else, we
> should try to keep it working. And as you say this sounds like
> something that can be handled trivially, I think now is not the time.
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No, I only use the client. But then I support plenty of things I don't use.

cheers

andrew