| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander(at)timescale(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Cygwin support |
| Date: | 2025-04-22 14:26:15 |
| Message-ID: | 971005.1745331975@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> I agree that I would not normally use Cygwin to run a Postgres instance.
> But its psql is nicer than others on Windows because unlike the native
> builds we build it with readline. That's why I've kept a buildfarm
> animal going all these years. If the maintenance burden were high I
> wouldn't do so - but it's not really. And these patches are tiny.
I vaguely recall some discussion about whether building with readline
has become possible under MSVC. I think it'd make a lot of people
happy if that could happen (but I hasten to add that I'm not
volunteering).
regards, tom lane
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