Re: Installation on Cygwin - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: Installation on Cygwin
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Msg-id CABUevEyYs3mNVM-_e1sjNAtjrQo6LGCt+UfsUR5KypMy9w+GWA@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Installation on Cygwin  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Responses Re: Installation on Cygwin  (Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>)
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On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 5:52 PM Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 09:40:59PM +0200, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> I happened to stumble over the Cygwin section of the installation docs, and was
> surprised to see references to not entirely bleeding-edge Windows versions:
>
>     "The adduser command is not supported; use the appropriate user management
>     application on Windows NT, 2000, or XP.  Otherwise, skip this step."
>
> Not knowing the first thing about Cygwin I might be out cycling here; it does
> sound like it's about due for an update to reflect current versions of Windows,
> or is this just relevant for older versions?  Skimming backwards we have, with
> various wordings, recommendeed against Cygwin since 8.0, the current wording
> going back to 8.4 more or less unchanged.

It's cute that it also talks about doing things on "Windows NT".... Any "non-NT" Windows has not existed for *many* years.

 

I am thinking the list of operating systems should just be removed.

Are you referring to the whole section 16.7 in the 12 version (https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/installation-platform-notes.html)? 

I can agree with that, and say that maybe that type of content is better maintained on the wiki?

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