On Wednesday, October 5, 2011, Craig Ringer <ring...@ringerc.id.au> wrote: > On 10/05/2011 03:46 AM, Dave Page wrote: >> >> Oh, the joys of supporting Windows :-) > > It's funny: for an OS with so relatively few "flavours" and versions, the number of quirks and bizarre behaviors is quite remarkable. I guess the text matrix isn't small, though: > > Windows > XP / Vista / 7 / [8]
You forgot 2003, 2003R2, 2008 and 2008R2 > 32-bit / 64-bit > Basic / Home / Pro or Business / Enterprise / Ultimate / Embedded Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter for the server editions. > On a domain / standalone > Local admin account / non-admin account / UAC admin account Domain admin. > [too many different antivirus products to list] > Service packs > *endless* possible group policy configurations > > ... so it's not too surprising to see hard-to-reproduce weirdness popping up. That last one is one of the worst - I've seen all sorts of weird policies from government users and large companies - they can take a *lot* of figuring out. That's why we have 4 developers who work on the installers (not all the time of course, but often in busy "bursts" for a few days or more, and often in parallel, like today with 3 guys working on this issue), along with 2 QA guys when we're building releases. It's easy to think building and maintaining installers is easy - unfortunately, that can be very far from the case for a product like Postgres. -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
