Re: Atomic rename feature for Windows.

From: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Cc: Victor Spirin <v(dot)spirin(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Atomic rename feature for Windows.
Date: 2021-12-10 04:28:04
Message-ID: CA+hUKG+xkaVBkJnRrvayf8pbeSdtnaWSNE1iiVGVjS8agvpHRA@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 5:23 PM Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Playing the devil's advocate here: why shouldn't we routinely drop
> support for anything that'll be EOL'd when a given PostgreSQL major
> release ships? The current policy seems somewhat extreme in the other
> direction: our target OS baseline is a contemporary of RHEL 2 or 3 and
> Linux 2.4.x, and our minimum compiler is a contemporary of GCC 3.x.

Oops, I take those contemporaries back, I was looking at older
documentation... but still the general point stands, can't we be a
little more aggressive?

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