On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Dave Page <dp...@pgadmin.org> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 2:27 AM, Heikki Linnakangas >> <heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com> wrote: >>> On 04.10.2011 22:46, Seiko Ishida (MP Tech Consulting LLC) wrote: >>>> >>>> Our team drives the bug notification activity with our valued Windows >>>> partners. This email is to notify you that PostgreSQL's application/driver >>>> experienced compatibility issue(s) during internal Microsoft testing and >>>> has >>>> been blocked. Please note that this block may already be in the latest >>>> Windows Developer Preview build so your prompt attention to the issue is >>>> much appreciated. >>>> >>>> ... >>>> Here are the details of the Softblock implementations: >>>> Compatibility Issue: >>>> Product name: Â PostgreSQL 8.2 >>> >>> Version 8.2 is quite old, and the community support for it will end in >>> December. I don't think anyone cares if it works on Windows 8. If you could >>> test with PostgreSQL 9.1, that would be great. >> >> On the other hand, it seems as though they've identified the offending >> code, so maybe it wouldn't be that much work to fix: > > This is in the old 8.2 MSI installer, which doesn't even support > Windows 7 (and would require more work than just this to do so). The > last ever release of 8.2 will happen long before Windows 8 is going to > go GA - it's safe to say this version is never going to be supported > on Windows 8.
That seems strange, since the MSFT guy is reporting that whatever he tested did work on Windows 7, but now that you've pointed out that Windows 8 won't be released until after we stop supporting 8.2, I am filled with uncaring. Perhaps if the MSFT guys want a link to direct people to, we could suggest http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQL_Release_Support_Policy -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
