Re: Win32 port

From: Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp>
Subject: Re: Win32 port
Date: 2002-11-06 19:09:50
Message-ID: 3DC968FE.5E842F5C@Yahoo.com
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> Here is a list of patch areas that I will address with the Win32 port:
>
> fork/exec
> loop rename test
> handle \r in COPY
> copydir for cp -r
> backslash tests
> rmdir not recursive for rm -r
> shared memory could map to new address in exec child

That's actually not done in the port yet. Thomas once overhauled the
hashtable code and changed it from using offsets to pointers. This code
is used for shared hashtables, so the mapping has to be done at a fixed
address for now.

Jan

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