From: | "Dave Page" <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk> |
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To: | "Merlin Moncure" <merlin(dot)moncure(at)rcsonline(dot)com>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
Cc: | <pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: [PATCHES] PostgreSQL 8.0.3 and Ipv6 |
Date: | 2005-08-19 18:36:25 |
Message-ID: | E7F85A1B5FF8D44C8A1AF6885BC9A0E4AC9B5E@ratbert.vale-housing.co.uk |
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-hackers-win32-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
> [mailto:pgsql-hackers-win32-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf
> Of Merlin Moncure
> Sent: 19 August 2005 19:03
> To: Joshua D. Drake
> Cc: pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] [PATCHES] PostgreSQL 8.0.3 and Ipv6
>
> Joshua wrote:
> > NT4 is dead. Let it die. It is very, very old and no longer
> supported
> > by Microsoft.
> >
> > 2000+ should be the minimum.
> >
> > Just curious but would PostgreSQL compile on RedHat 6.2 and run?
> >
> Windows NT 4.0 was released in Jul of 1996. The official
> release of red
> had linux at that time was 3.04 with the upcoming 4.0 in beta.
>
> Just to put things into perspective :).
>
> (I agree with you, let it die!)
+1
FWIW, pgInstaller won't run fully on NT because we can't initdb as a
different user (the APIs simply aren't there in <2K).
/D
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