On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 11:15:46AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> mha@postgresql.org (Magnus Hagander) writes:
> > Native shared memory implementation for win32.
> > Uses same underlying tech as before, but not the sysv emulation layer.
>
> Actually, I was wondering whether the cygwin port could use this new
> code too, so that we could get rid of the __CYGWIN__ kluges in
> sysv_shmem.c. This patch seems not to do that.
I don't think it should. Cygwin in general is supposed to be Unix-like and
not Win32-like. For example, IIRC it does not use the native win32
implementation of semaphores either.
//Magnus
