Re: narwhal and PGDLLIMPORT - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: narwhal and PGDLLIMPORT
Date
Msg-id 27340.1391540016@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: narwhal and PGDLLIMPORT  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
Responses Re: narwhal and PGDLLIMPORT  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
Re: narwhal and PGDLLIMPORT  (Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@gmail.com>)
Re: narwhal and PGDLLIMPORT  (Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com>)
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"Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes:
> On 02/04/2014 09:34 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> My own opinion is that I've already wasted untold man-hours thanks to
>> the random porting problems induced by Windows, a platform that I never
>> have and never will care about personally.  I will *not* spend my own
>> time doing tests that someone else could do.  If we can't get some
>> effort contributed by someone who does use that platform, I'm personally
>> prepared to declare the entire damn thing no longer supported.

> Although that is obviously your prerogative it is important to remember 
> that Windows is easily the second most used version of PostgreSQL out 
> there (behind Linux).

[ shrug... ]  If it's so widely used, why is it so hard to find somebody
who's willing to put in some development effort for it?
        regards, tom lane



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