Re: [PATCHES] PostgreSQL 8.0.3 and Ipv6 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers-win32

From Dave Page
Subject Re: [PATCHES] PostgreSQL 8.0.3 and Ipv6
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Msg-id E7F85A1B5FF8D44C8A1AF6885BC9A0E4AC9B5E@ratbert.vale-housing.co.uk
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-hackers-win32-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-hackers-win32-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf
> Of Merlin Moncure
> Sent: 19 August 2005 19:03
> To: Joshua D. Drake
> Cc: pgsql-hackers-win32@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] [PATCHES] PostgreSQL 8.0.3 and Ipv6
>
> Joshua wrote:
> > NT4 is dead. Let it die. It is very, very old and no longer
> supported
> > by Microsoft.
> >
> > 2000+ should be the minimum.
> >
> > Just curious but would PostgreSQL compile on RedHat 6.2 and run?
> >
> Windows NT 4.0 was released in Jul of 1996.  The official
> release of red
> had linux at that time was 3.04 with the upcoming 4.0 in beta.
>
> Just to put things into perspective :).
>
> (I agree with you, let it die!)

+1

FWIW, pgInstaller won't run fully on NT because we can't initdb as a
different user (the APIs simply aren't there in <2K).

/D

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