Re: remove some ancient port hacks

From: Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: remove some ancient port hacks
Date: 2020-08-13 03:22:52
Message-ID: 20200813032252.GA1133236@rfd.leadboat.com
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On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 09:12:07AM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> There are two ancient hacks in the cygwin and solaris ports that appear to
> have been solved more than 10 years ago, so I think we can remove them. See
> attached patches.

+1 for removing these. >10y age is not sufficient justification by itself; if
systems that shipped with the defect were not yet EOL, that would tend to
justify waiting longer. For these particular hacks, though, affected systems
are both old and EOL.

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