Re: Cygwin support

On 2025-04-28 Mo 4:53 PM, Mark Woodward wrote:
> What are the economics of this? I used PostgreSQL and Cygwin 25 years 
> ago and am amazed it is still a thing.
> How much effort is it to support PostgreSQL on Cygwin?
> How many actual users are using PostgreSQL on cygwin in production? (I 
> should hope none!)
>
> I would say it is something that should be announced as "deprecated" 
> and see how many people complain, my bet no one will really care. 
> Cygwin was a phenomenal hack in its day but I believe that those days 
> have passed.



Please don't top-post on PostgreSQL lists.

I don't see it as our role to pass judgements like this on what people 
use. While Cygwin exists it's not our province to deprecate its use. If 
the maintenance effort were onerous I might be willing to relook at our 
support for it, but the simple answer to your first question is that the 
maintenance effort is close to zero. As I pointed out elsewhere in this 
thread, even if the server has limited use, the Cygwin psql client is 
nicer to use on Windows than the native build, reason enough to keep it 
going, at least until we improve the native build.


cheers


andrew


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