Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Make S_IRGRP etc available in mingw builds as well as MSVC. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Make S_IRGRP etc available in mingw builds as well as MSVC.
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Msg-id 7725.1292181318@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Make S_IRGRP etc available in mingw builds as well as MSVC.  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 19:54, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> It's a fair question. �We could clean up some of these messy ifdefs
>> if we dropped support for that combination. �I assume that an MSVC-built
>> libpq.dll would still work for Borland users, no?

> The dynamic one, yes. Static linked one, no.

> IIRC I suggest desupporting it every now and then and get voted down
> ;) And quite often we have someone showing up around the x.y.2 release
> to clean it up so it works again...

Yeah, a look in the commit logs shows that happening about once a year.
It'd sure be nice if we had a less haphazard process for it though.
        regards, tom lane


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