Re: Bump MIN_WINNT to 0x0600 (Vista) as minimal runtime in 16~

On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 04:16:40PM +1200, Thomas Munro wrote:
> I think we should drop everything older than Win 10 for PG16, as
> argued in various threads where various pain points came up.  For one
> thing, that would make a lot of future work simpler (ie not needing to
> test alternative code paths on dead computers without CI or BF, AKA
> dead code), and also I don't think we really help anyone by allowing
> new database deployments on operating systems that aren't receiving
> vendor patches on the world's most attacked operating system.  Doing
> it incrementally is fine by me, too, though, if it makes the patches
> and discussions easier...

Is there anything posted recently that would require that?  Perhaps
the async work?  FWIW, I agree to be much more aggressive, but there
is nothing in the tree now that depends on _WIN32_WINNT, except one
change for the locales.
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Michael