Re: Postgres 8.2.x support on Windows 2008

On 17 mar 2009, at 05.22, "Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
wrote:

> On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 23:02 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> "Raji Sridar (raji)" <raji(at)cisco(dot)com> writes:
>>> I don't mind going to 8.3 or later. I want to ensure that Postgres
>>> is
>>> tested on Windows 2008 and patches created like other platforms.
>>> How do
>>> I enable that?
>>
>> Contribute a test machine to the buildfarm:
>> http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/index.html
>>
>> (Although I have to concede never having heard of "Windows 2008".
>> You sure you're not talking about Vista? If so, we have that
>> covered.)
>
> Its beta of Windows 7 server essentially.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/default.aspx
>

That's just plain wrong. Windows 2008 is very much a production
release (insert appropriate comment about windows vs production ready
here). It's closer to "server vista" (though not as broken), but it's
really an in between version. Microsoft stopped doing coordinated
desktop/server releases years ago.

/Magnus

> Joshua D. Drake
>
>
>>
>> regards, tom lane
>>
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