Re: [PATCHES] Win32 Event log

Bruce Momjian wrote:

>Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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>>I am more and more coming to the conclusion that we should either remove
>>NT4 as a supported platform, or at least surround it with very
>>significant caveats. M$ is about to end the last remaining bit of
>>support for it, and has already stopped publishing non-security fixes.
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>>It looks like there are lots of legacy installations still out there
>>(heck, I see lots of RH7.3 and it's also out of support).
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>>But there isn't any legacy native W32 Postgres, so we would not be
>>affecting any legacy users by not supporting NT4.
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>What is the downside of supporting NT4 if we can?
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It's that "if" I am concerned about. I think Dave and Merlin have just
showed us that, in addition to the eventlog limitations, there are
enough other reasons to say we really can't.

As for Andreas' point about people wanting to try PostgreSQL out on
low-cost platforms, if they need Windows they can use Cygwin still, and
otherwise they can use Linux or FreeBSD.

The point is that we have limited resources, and should not strain them
trying to support a platform that is itself unsupported and that makes
life difficult/impossible for us. If we had legacy users it might be a
different story.

cheers

andrew