Re: Pipe fixes for win32 services - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: Pipe fixes for win32 services
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Msg-id 6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCE34BF10@algol.sollentuna.se
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In response to Pipe fixes for win32 services  ("Magnus Hagander" <mha@sollentuna.net>)
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>Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
>> This needs to be applied soon so the installer can be tested.
>
>I can't speak to the details of the Windows process-launch code,
>but it looked okay to me otherwise.
>
>One point: if I understood correctly, this is necessary only for
>Windows 2000, because we've already blown off the thought of
>supporting any older Windows versions, no?

No, NT4 is also on our list of supported versions.

> If we later decide
>we can't support W2K either, this would be a pretty large chunk
>of code that we could pull out.  Please make sure it's clearly
>labeled as "useful only as long as we support Windows 2000".

It is, in the comment preceding the code.

//Magnus

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