Re: [PATCHES] Win32 Event log

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Dave Page wrote:

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>>In the third place, no one is going to have any difficulty
>>picking out PANICs from "other events" ;-)
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>Finding them is not so much the problem - it's the fact that the event
>log on Windows has a limited size (default 1024Kb on XP) and will
>overwrite old events as required. The sort of output you might see from
>a busy PostgreSQL server could potentially wipe out relatively new
>entries made by other apps.
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>One possible solution would be to use our own event log which is
>possible in 2K+, (but not NT).
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I am more and more coming to the conclusion that we should either remove
NT4 as a supported platform, or at least surround it with very
significant caveats. M$ is about to end the last remaining bit of
support for it, and has already stopped publishing non-security fixes.

It looks like there are lots of legacy installations still out there
(heck, I see lots of RH7.3 and it's also out of support).

But there isn't any legacy native W32 Postgres, so we would not be
affecting any legacy users by not supporting NT4.

Thoughts?

cheers

andrew