Re: remove some ancient port hacks - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Noah Misch
Subject Re: remove some ancient port hacks
Date
Msg-id 20200813032252.GA1133236@rfd.leadboat.com
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In response to remove some ancient port hacks  (Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>)
Responses Re: remove some ancient port hacks  (Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>)
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On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 09:12:07AM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> There are two ancient hacks in the cygwin and solaris ports that appear to
> have been solved more than 10 years ago, so I think we can remove them.  See
> attached patches.

+1 for removing these.  >10y age is not sufficient justification by itself; if
systems that shipped with the defect were not yet EOL, that would tend to
justify waiting longer.  For these particular hacks, though, affected systems
are both old and EOL.



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