>>> This might be way more than we want to do, but there is an article >>> that describes some techniques for doing what seems to be missing >>> (AIUI): >>> >>> <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163996.aspx> >> Even this would be doable, I'm afraid it may not fit in 9.3 if we >> think about the current status of CF. So our choice would be: >> >> 1) Postpone the patch to 9.4 >> >> 2) Commit the patch in 9.3 without Windows support >> >> I personally am ok with #2. We traditionally avoid particular paltform >> specific features on PostgreSQL. However I think the policiy could be >> losen for contrib staffs. Also pgbench is just a client program. We >> could always use pgbench on UNIX/Linux if we truely need the feature. >> >> What do you think? > > Fair enough, I was just trying to point out alternatives. We have > committed platform-specific features before now. I hope it doesn't > just get left like this, though.
Yeah, I hope someone pick this up and propose as a TODO item. In the mean time, I'm going to commit the patch without Windows support unless there's objection. -- Tatsuo Ishii SRA OSS, Inc. Japan English: http://www.sraoss.co.jp/index_en.php Japanese: http://www.sraoss.co.jp -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
