Re: Strange Windows problem, lock_timeout test request

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Boszormenyi Zoltan <zb(at)cybertec(dot)at>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Hans-Jürgen Schönig <hs(at)cybertec(dot)at>, Ants Aasma <ants(at)cybertec(dot)at>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: Re: Strange Windows problem, lock_timeout test request
Date: 2013-01-24 20:08:14
Message-ID: 510194AE.8040308@dunslane.net
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On 01/24/2013 02:41 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>>
>> What advantages does mingw have over MSVC? Is it just that it is
>> cost-free, or is it easier to use mingw than MSVC for someone used to
>> building on Linux? (mingw certainly does not seem to have the
>> advantage of being fast!)
>
> See Craig's email today about problems with SDKs and availabilty of

Not sure what happened there.

... availability of free 64 bit MSVC compilers.

Also, some third party libraries are built with the Mingw compilers and
it's often best not to switch if you can help it.

>
>>
>> Would you like to put this somewhere on wiki.postgresql.org, or would
>> you mind if I do so?

Please go for it.

cheers

andrew

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