Re: Windows 2000 Support

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just finished setting up a new buildfarm member (Bandicoot)
> > running Windows 2000 Pro. Aside from the fact that it now fails
> > with the same cyptic pg_regress error as seen on Snake, it also
> > became apparent that CVS HEAD won't run properly on an unpatched
> > Windows 2000 (initdb - and probably pg_ctl - fails when trying to
> > dynamically load advapi32.dll which is used to shed excess
> > privileges). This was solved by the installation of service pack 4.
> > Unfortunately I couldn't find a way to catch the error - it seems
> > to kill the app and throw a messagebox with a cryptic message.
> >
> > Given that you have to be clinically insane to run Win2K without
> > patching it to the hilt I'm not overly concerned by this (and will
> > add appropriate checks to pgInstaller), but it's probably worth
> > mentioning that our minimum supported platform is Windows 2000 Pro
> > with Service Pack 4 from 8.2.
>
> Late into the game, yes, I definitely think this is a reasonable
> requirement. (FWIW, that's the same requirements as MS put on SQL
> Server)
>
> But yes, this should probably go in the release notes.

I have updated the 8.0 release notes to say Windows 2000SP4 supported.

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