Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> writes: > On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 02:56:15PM +1200, Thomas Munro wrote: >> I propose that we drop support for Windows versions older than >> 10/Server 2016 in the PostgreSQL 16 cycle,
Do we have any data on what people are actually using?
None that I know of. Anecdotally, we dropped support for pgAdmin on Windows < 8 (2012 for the server edition), and had a single complaint - and the user happily acknowledged they were on an old release and expected support to be dropped sooner or later. Windows 8 was a pretty unpopular release, so I would expect shifting to 10/2016+ for PG 16 would be unlikely to be a major problem.
FWIW, Python dropped support for < 8/2012 with v3.9.
> Do you think that we could raise the minimum C standard on WIN32 to > C11, at least for MSVC?
As long as the C11-isms are in MSVC-only code, it seems like this is exactly equivalent to setting a minimum MSVC version. I don't see an objection-in-principle there, it's just a practical question of how far back is reasonable to support MSVC versions. (That's very distinct from how far back we need the built code to run.)
