Re: [HACKERS] Another crack at doing a Win32 build under MINGW

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>
Cc: "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Another crack at doing a Win32 build under MINGW
Date: 2004-03-05 15:14:50
Message-ID: 7145.1078499690@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net> writes:
> Are there any other platforms which don't have unix sockets?

There are a couple, although I think those ports may be moribund
(if anyone still cares about BeOS, they haven't mentioned it lately).

> Perhaps we should force it to open a tcp socket on 127.0.0.1 only? That
> way we don't suddenly open up to external connections without the user
> asking for it.

That seems like a reasonable compromise.

regards, tom lane

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