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Re: FW: [CYGWIN] 7.2b3 postmaster doesn't start on Win98 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: FW: [CYGWIN] 7.2b3 postmaster doesn't start on Win98
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.30.0112032107240.3821-100000@peter.localdomain
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In response to Re: FW: [CYGWIN] 7.2b3 postmaster doesn't start on Win98  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: FW: [CYGWIN] 7.2b3 postmaster doesn't start on Win98  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane writes:

> Unless someone can think of a reasonable runtime check to distinguish
> win98 from newer systems, I think we have little choice but to make the
> data directory permissions check be #ifndef __CYGWIN__.

I don't think so.  We've never claimed to support Cygwin on Windows
95/98/ME, but we've reasonably supported Cygwin on Windows NT/2000 and we
shouldn't break that to support some other system.

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net

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