Re: pgsql: Clean up some code, comments and docs referring to Windows 2000

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Cc: pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pgsql: Clean up some code, comments and docs referring to Windows 2000
Date: 2020-02-20 06:27:53
Message-ID: 18482.1582180073@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> writes:
> For the note, it looks that we could get completely rid of
> src/port/getaddrinfo.c once we drop support for XP as IPv6 support is
> enabled by default on Vista and Windows 7. For XP, one needs to
> install an extra module manually. Do you think that there are other
> platforms using our port implementation for getaddrinfo() except
> Windows? That's not material for today, obviously.

We don't have to guess about it too much, we can check the buildfarm.
Of the configure-using animals, it looks like fairywren, gaur, and
jacana are using src/port/getaddrinfo.c. gaur's excuse is that its
libc is pre-IPv6 ;-) ... not sure about fairywren and jacana.

regards, tom lane

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