Re: Windows build broken starting at da9b580d89903fee871cf54845ffa2b26bda2e11

> On May 15, 2018, at 10:20 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> Mark Dilger <hornschnorter(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>>>> If none of the animals
>>>> are configured to detect this bug, perhaps the community needs another
>>>> Windows animal configured along the lines of the build machine I am using?
>
>>> +1. How do you have yours configured, anyway?
>
>> I mostly develop on mac and linux and don't look at the windows system
>> too much:
>
>> Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard
>> Service Pack 1
>> Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Beta2 x64 cross tools
>
> Hm. I'm not sure what our nominal support range for Visual Studio is.
> I see that mastodon (running VS2005) and currawong (running VS2008)
> haven't reported on HEAD lately, and I think they may have been shut
> down intentionally due to desupport? But if your build still works
> then it seems like we could continue to support VS2008.

I don't have a strong opinion on that. I could also look to upgrade
to a newer version. Generally, I try to build using the oldest
supported version rather than the newest. What is the next oldest
working test machine you have?

mark