Re: Re: Proposal for Allow postgresql.conf values to be changed via SQL [review]

From: Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Boszormenyi Zoltan <zb(at)cybertec(dot)at>
Cc: Amit kapila <amit(dot)kapila(at)huawei(dot)com>, "'Tom Lane'" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "'Robert Haas'" <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Re: Proposal for Allow postgresql.conf values to be changed via SQL [review]
Date: 2013-01-21 02:05:44
Message-ID: 50FCA278.6090001@2ndQuadrant.com
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On 01/21/2013 10:03 AM, Craig Ringer wrote:
> On 01/19/2013 04:08 AM, Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote:
>> However, I am not sure whether Cygwin provides the mkstemp() call or not.
>> Searching... Found bugzilla reports against mkstemp on Cygwin.
> Is Cygwin a platform that should be targeted for the server backend
> these days?
>
> I can understand making sure that libpq works on Cygwin, but is there
> any reason at all to run a Pg server backend on Cygwin rather than as
> native Windows binaries?

I'm not suggesting immediately dropping working support, since this is
so trivially worked around. I'm just wondering why anybody cares about
the platform.

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Craig Ringer http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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