On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 16:58, Tom Lane<tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
>> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 16:10, Tom Lane<tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> 8.2 as well, no?
>
>> 8.2 has a different shmem implementation - the one that emulates sysv
>> shmem. The patch will need to be changed around for that, and I
>> haven't looked at that. It may be worthwhile to do that, but it's a
>> separate patch, so let's get it out in 8.3 and 8.4 first.
>
> If it's at all hard to do, I could see deprecating 8.2 for Windows
> instead.
I haven't looked at how much work it would be at all yet. So let's do
that before we decide to deprecate anything. As mentioned downthread,
8.2 is a very widespread release, and we really want to avoid
deprecating it.
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