Re: RFC: PostgreSQL Add-On Network

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Markus Wanner <markus(at)bluegap(dot)ch> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Josh Berkus wrote:
>>
>> Dave wrote:
>>>
>>> and frankly,
>>> isn't the way this project generally works.
>
> Isn't it? We didn't even support Windows for quite a long time.

No, it's quite different for the PostgreSQL not to support a platform
at all, than for it to say "it's supported on FOO/OS, but you can't
use Window Functions" or "on BAR/OS, you can't use PITR".

The only reason we ever offer different functionality on different
platforms is when there are external reasons forcing us to - for
example, lack of reparse points in NTFS on Windows NT 4.0 prevented us
offering table space support, and for some time we had no Win32 port
of libuuid, so couldn't offer the UUID contrib module. There are no
such problems with this project that I can see - at least that cannot
be overcome with a little thought and appropriate tool selection.

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Dave Page
EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com