Re: Cleaning up historical portability baggage

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Cleaning up historical portability baggage
Date: 2022-08-15 08:36:11
Message-ID: 3e9f57df-857d-c857-81a4-cc7ff61d94c7@enterprisedb.com
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On 15.08.22 03:48, Thomas Munro wrote:
>> I vaguely remember successfully trying it in the past. But I just tried it
>> unsuccessfully in a VM and there's a bunch of other places saying it's not
>> working...
>> https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4240
> I think we'd better remove our claim that it works then. Patch attached.

When I developed support for abstract unix sockets, I did test them on
Windows. The lack of support on WSL appears to be an unrelated fact.
See for example how [0] talks about them separately.

[0]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/af_unix-comes-to-windows/

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