On Thu, Jun 8, 2023 at 7:20 AM Tomas Vondra <tomas.von...@enterprisedb.com> wrote: > Is the platform support really there for all platforms we want/intend to > support? I have no problem believing that for modern Linux/BSD systems, > but what about the older stuff we currently support.
There is a conversation to be had about whether/when/how to adopt C11/C17 threads (= same API on Windows and Unix, but sadly two straggler systems don't have required OS support yet (macOS, OpenBSD)), but POSIX + NT threads were all worked out in the 90s. We have last-mover advantage here. > Also, which other projects did this transition? Is there something we > could learn from them? Were they restricted to much smaller list of > platforms? Apache may be interesting. Wide ecosystem of extensions.
