2010/1/15 Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>:
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> Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
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>> Do people still use MinGW for any real work? Could we just drop
>> walreceiver support from MinGW builds?
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>> Or maybe we should consider splitting walreceiver into two parts after
>> all. Only the bare minimum that needs to access libpq would go into the
>> shared object, and the rest would be linked with the backend as usual.
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> I use MinGW when doing Windows work (e.g. the threading piece in parallel pg_restore). And I think it is generally
desirableto be able to build on Windows using an open source tool chain. I'd want a damn good reason to abandon its
use.And I don't like the idea of not supporting walreceiver on it either. Please find another solution if possible.
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Yeah. FWIW, I don't use mingw do do any windows development, but
definitely +1 on working hard to keep support for it if at all
possible.
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