Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> writes:
> 3. You can't really run PostgreSQL on Cygwin for real, because its
> implementation of signals does not have reliable signal masking, so
> unsubtle and probably also subtle breakage occurs. That was reported
> upstream by Noah years ago, but they aren't working on a fix.
> lorikeet shows random failures, and presumably any CI system will do
> the same...
If that's an accurate statement, shouldn't we just drop Cygwin support?
Now that we have a native Windows build, it's hard to see how any live
user would prefer to use the Cygwin build.
regards, tom lane