Re: Crash with old Windows on new CPU

* Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> On 2/12/16 11:24 AM, Christian Ullrich wrote:

>> Otherwise, it may be time to update the manual (15.6 Supported
>> Platforms) where it says PostgreSQL "can be expected to work on these
>> operating systems: [...] Windows (Win2000 SP4 and later), [...]".
>> Perhaps we could add "except Windows before 7 SP1/2008R2 SP1 when
>> running in x64 mode on Intel CPUs introduced after May 2013 (Haswell and
>> later)"?

> Wouldn't the fix be for users to upgrade their service packs?

Windows 2008 and 2008R2 are entirely different things: 2008 is the
server sibling of Vista (internal version 6.0), 2008R2 is that of
Windows 7 (6.1). There is no version of 2008 that supports AVX2.

--
Christian