On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Dave Page <dp...@pgadmin.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 2:35 AM, Tatsuo Ishii <is...@postgresql.org> wrote: >>>>>> 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. >> >> We have committed platform-specific features before, but generally >> only when it's not *possible* to do them for all platforms. For >> example the posix_fadvise stuff isn't available on Windows at all, so >> there isn't much we can do there. > > Right - having platform specific features for other reasons like lack > of time is a slippery slope in my opinion. We should not get into such > a habit or Windows will quickly become a second class platform as far > as PostgreSQL features are concerned.
Especially since there is no lack of time - the functionality is there, it just looks (significantly) different. -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers