Re: Raising our compiler requirements for 9.6

On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> During the 9.5 cycle, and earlier, the topic of increasing our minimum
> bar for compilers came up a bunch of times. Specifically whether we
> still should continue to use C90 as a baseline.

Minor question: is there any value to keeping the client side code to
older standards? On a previous project compiled libpq on many legacy
architectures because we were using it as frontend to backup software.
The project didn't end up taking off so it's no big deal to me, but
just throwing it out there: libpq has traditionally enjoyed broader
compiler support than the full project (borland, windows back in the
day).

merlin