On 2016-03-31 09:04:35 +0800, Craig Ringer wrote: > The cost is small. First off I agree we don't want to drop proper windows support.
But I think "the cost is small" is a pretty bad mischaracterization. I don't do windows, and yet I've spent a lot of time figuring out windows only stuff, even writing windows only things (atomics, latches, recent bugfixes). There's a lot of architectural gunk in postgres just geared towards supporting windows (c.f. EXEC_BACKEND), and that makes new development harder in a number of cases. E.g. background workers, paralellism and such had quite some extra work cut out for them because of that. > but is a burden carried mainly by those who care about Windows > support. I don't think that's true. Tom e.g. seems to fight battles with it on a regular base. Andres Freund -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
