On Sat, Sep 07, 2019 at 12:11:25AM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > I'm not sure exactly what the upstream of mingw is these days, but I > think the original issue that led to 811be893 has long been fixed [0], > and the other stuff in mingwcompat.c is also no longer relevant [1]. I > think mingwcompat.c could be removed altogether. I'm not sure to what > extent we need to support 5+ year old mingw versions.
On HEAD I would not be against removing that as this leads to a cleanup of our code. For MSVC, we only support VS 2013~ on HEAD, so saying that we don't support MinGW older than what was proposed 5 years ago sounds sensible.