Re: Cygwin support

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> I agree that I would not normally use Cygwin to run a Postgres instance. 
> But its psql is nicer than others on Windows because unlike the native 
> builds we build it with readline. That's why I've kept a buildfarm 
> animal going all these years. If the maintenance burden were high I 
> wouldn't do so - but it's not really. And these patches are tiny.

I vaguely recall some discussion about whether building with readline
has become possible under MSVC.  I think it'd make a lot of people
happy if that could happen (but I hasten to add that I'm not
volunteering).

            regards, tom lane