Re: What is happening on buildfarm member baiji? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 09:49:47AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> What happens if we just "#ifndef WIN32" the setsockopt(SO_REUSEADDR)
>> call?  I believe the reason that's in there is that some platforms will
>> reject bind() to a previously-used address for a TCP timeout delay after
>> a previous postmaster quit, but if that doesn't happen on Windows then
>> maybe all we need is to not set the option.

> I think that at least used to happen on Windows in earlier versions.

Well, we'd have to check the behavior of the proposed global object on
every supported Windows version too, so we might as well check the
simpler solution while we're at it.
        regards, tom lane