Re: boolean in C - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Zdenek Kotala
Subject Re: boolean in C
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Msg-id 1247758230.1278.14.camel@localhost
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In response to Re: boolean in C  (Grzegorz Jaskiewicz <gj@pointblue.com.pl>)
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Grzegorz Jaskiewicz píše v čt 16. 07. 2009 v 14:59 +0100:

> >
> >> Why C89, and not C99 ? Virtually all compilers for last 4 years have/
> >> had C99 support.
> >
> > Well, I think we want to run on systems that are older than 4 years,  
> > too.
> 
> 
> Sure, but that's probably less than 1% of all systems.
> The 4 years was a guess, I think its much more than that.

For example Solaris 8 is 9 years old and still is used in production. I
guess HP-UX is in same situation. And so on. I not able to say how many
PostgreSQL runs on them but how Tom mentioned there is no significant
reason to break old platform.
Zdenek



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