Re: Custom C function - is palloc broken?

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: "Dan \"Heron\" Myers" <heron(at)xnapid(dot)com>
Cc: Craig Ringer <craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us
Subject: Re: Custom C function - is palloc broken?
Date: 2008-05-06 03:18:42
Message-ID: 481FCE12.9010309@commandprompt.com
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Dan "Heron" Myers wrote:

> Tom Lane wrote:
> > You need to
> > get over this concept of "Postgres is broken" and try to identify a
> > specific reason why your DLL builds are not working.
>
> I don't think I ever said Postgres was broken. I said Postgres was
> crashing. I expressed doubt that Postgres' win32 binary was built with
> MSVC++... mostly because the website still says it was built with mingw.

Just FYI, the "installer" project as of 8.3 (I don't know about previous
releases) is using MSVC++ as far as I know.

http://pginstaller.projects.postgresql.org/

I see now that the FAQ appears to be out of date. Magnus, Dave? Can we
get the Installer FAQ updated?

http://pginstaller.projects.postgresql.org/faq/FAQ_windows.html

> Thanks,
> Dan

Sorry you are having so much trouble.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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