Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> Which leads to the question - do we want to back out the
>> patch, have 8.2 keep working on that, and having 8.2 fail in the few
>> unusual scenarios we have now, or do we also backpatch the requirement
>> to run on win2k or later?
> I think the safest course is to revert the fix and keep 8.2 working on
> all platforms on which it used to work.
+1 --- since this seems to be a corner case, desupporting old Windows
versions in a minor update doesn't seem like the thing to do.
Sorry for creating work for you, Magnus.
regards, tom lane