Re: Re: pgsql: New versions of mingw have gettimeofday(), so add an autoconf

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: Kris Jurka <books(at)ejurka(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Re: pgsql: New versions of mingw have gettimeofday(), so add an autoconf
Date: 2007-11-21 20:33:53
Message-ID: 17470.1195677233@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 02:50 -0700, Kris Jurka wrote:
>> Can we backport this fix? I'm trying to setup a new windows build
>> environment and this is currently halting my progress for back branches.

> Technically, it's fairly easy. And given that it's been working for a
> couple of betas of 8.3, it seems it should be safe. OTOH, the official
> build for 8.3 doesn't use it, so binary testers haven't seen it. But any
> issues should've been build issues rather than runtime ones, I think.

> So yeah, it would be reasonably easy to do, and probably a good idea.
> Anybody think we shouldn't?

Given that we're abandoning support for 8.0 and 8.1 on Windows,
I'd say +1 for fixing 8.2, but not for any older branches.

regards, tom lane

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