Re: [HACKERS] Supporting huge pages on Windows

On 01/21/2018 01:02 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2018-01-21 13:42:13 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> To add some more notes on this. Again, the API appears in Vista/2003.
>> Windows Vista went EOL (out of extended support even) in April 2017,
>> Windows 2003 did so in July 2015. Those are the versions that it's *in* --
>> obviously the versions without it are even older.
>>
>> Our binaries only support Windows 2008 and up (at least the ones by EDB,
>> which are the ones that have a supported-version matrix documented on our
>> site).
>>
>> We have traditionally supported older versions of Windows as long as people
>> build from source. But perhaps I'm way overreading that and we should just
>> bite the bullet, commit this patch, and declare those platforms as
>> completely dead by PostgreSQL 11?
> Yea, I think it's beyond time that we declare some old windows versions
> dead. There's enough weird behaviour in supported versions of windows
> (especially its socket API) that I really don't want to support more
> than necessary. And supporting versions that've been out of date for a
> while seems more than unnecessary.
>

I'll be quite happy to retire the XP machine running brolga, currawong
and frogmouth, if that's the consensus. XP is now long out of support.
OTOH I have personal experience of it running in many potentially
critical situations, still (hospitals, for example). I can, if people
want, keep the machine running just building the back branches.

I should probably look at setting up a modern 32-bit replacement (say
Windows 10 Pro-32).

cheers

andrew

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