| From: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, Jesse Morris <jmorris(at)coverity(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: BUG #5065: pg_ctl start fails as administrator, with "could not locate matching postgres executable" |
| Date: | 2009-11-20 01:28:49 |
| Message-ID: | 9837222c0911191728y7de9bc63q9749957bac427017@mail.gmail.com |
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2009/11/16 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
>> Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>> Which leads to the question - do we want to back out the
>>> patch, have 8.2 keep working on that, and having 8.2 fail in the few
>>> unusual scenarios we have now, or do we also backpatch the requirement
>>> to run on win2k or later?
>
>> I think the safest course is to revert the fix and keep 8.2 working on
>> all platforms on which it used to work.
>
> +1 --- since this seems to be a corner case, desupporting old Windows
> versions in a minor update doesn't seem like the thing to do.
Agreed, reverted.
> Sorry for creating work for you, Magnus.
No problem.
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Magnus Hagander
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