Re: Installation on Cygwin - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Installation on Cygwin
Date
Msg-id 20200831155224.GC13613@momjian.us
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In response to Installation on Cygwin  (Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>)
Responses Re: Installation on Cygwin  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 09:40:59PM +0200, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> I happened to stumble over the Cygwin section of the installation docs, and was
> surprised to see references to not entirely bleeding-edge Windows versions:
> 
>     "The adduser command is not supported; use the appropriate user management
>     application on Windows NT, 2000, or XP.  Otherwise, skip this step."
> 
> Not knowing the first thing about Cygwin I might be out cycling here; it does
> sound like it's about due for an update to reflect current versions of Windows,
> or is this just relevant for older versions?  Skimming backwards we have, with
> various wordings, recommendeed against Cygwin since 8.0, the current wording
> going back to 8.4 more or less unchanged.

I am thinking the list of operating systems should just be removed.

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