Tom Lane wrote:
> mlw <pgsql@mohawksoft.com> writes:
> > Windows' sockets aren't very good.
>
> They seem to be good enough that we have not had to worry about it,
> with the exception of the close/closesocket issue and the nonstandard
> error reporting mechanism. But both of those have been worked around
> for a long time in the libpq sources. Do we really need to insert a
> compatibility layer just to deal with those two problems?
Right. The problem with a compatibility layer is that it adds another
level of abstraction. That is not bad, but it might not make things
clearer either.
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