Re: FW: [CYGWIN] 7.2b3 postmaster doesn't start on Win98

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Horák Daniel <horak(at)sit(dot)plzen-city(dot)cz>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: FW: [CYGWIN] 7.2b3 postmaster doesn't start on Win98
Date: 2001-12-04 16:12:55
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.30.0112032107240.3821-100000@peter.localdomain
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Tom Lane writes:

> Unless someone can think of a reasonable runtime check to distinguish
> win98 from newer systems, I think we have little choice but to make the
> data directory permissions check be #ifndef __CYGWIN__.

I don't think so. We've never claimed to support Cygwin on Windows
95/98/ME, but we've reasonably supported Cygwin on Windows NT/2000 and we
shouldn't break that to support some other system.

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net

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