Re: Re: pgsql: New versions of mingw have gettimeofday(), so add an autoconf - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Re: pgsql: New versions of mingw have gettimeofday(), so add an autoconf
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Msg-id 17470.1195677233@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: pgsql: New versions of mingw have gettimeofday(), so add an autoconf  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
Responses Re: Re: pgsql: New versions of mingw have gettimeofday(), so add an autoconf  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 02:50 -0700, Kris Jurka wrote:
>> Can we backport this fix?  I'm trying to setup a new windows build 
>> environment and this is currently halting my progress for back branches.

> Technically, it's fairly easy. And given that it's been working for a
> couple of betas of 8.3, it seems it should be safe. OTOH, the official
> build for 8.3 doesn't use it, so binary testers haven't seen it. But any
> issues should've been build issues rather than runtime ones, I think.

> So yeah, it would be reasonably easy to do, and probably a good idea.
> Anybody think we shouldn't?

Given that we're abandoning support for 8.0 and 8.1 on Windows,
I'd say +1 for fixing 8.2, but not for any older branches.
        regards, tom lane


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