Re: Atomic rename feature for Windows. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Thomas Munro
Subject Re: Atomic rename feature for Windows.
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Msg-id CA+hUKG+xkaVBkJnRrvayf8pbeSdtnaWSNE1iiVGVjS8agvpHRA@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Atomic rename feature for Windows.  (Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>)
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On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 5:23 PM Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> wrote:
> Playing the devil's advocate here: why shouldn't we routinely drop
> support for anything that'll be EOL'd when a given PostgreSQL major
> release ships?  The current policy seems somewhat extreme in the other
> direction: our target OS baseline is a contemporary of RHEL 2 or 3 and
> Linux 2.4.x, and our minimum compiler is a contemporary of GCC 3.x.

Oops, I take those contemporaries back, I was looking at older
documentation... but still the general point stands, can't we be a
little more aggressive?



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