Magnus Hagander wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I just finished setting up a new buildfarm member (Bandicoot) > > running Windows 2000 Pro. Aside from the fact that it now fails > > with the same cyptic pg_regress error as seen on Snake, it also > > became apparent that CVS HEAD won't run properly on an unpatched > > Windows 2000 (initdb - and probably pg_ctl - fails when trying to > > dynamically load advapi32.dll which is used to shed excess > > privileges). This was solved by the installation of service pack 4. > > Unfortunately I couldn't find a way to catch the error - it seems > > to kill the app and throw a messagebox with a cryptic message. > > > > Given that you have to be clinically insane to run Win2K without > > patching it to the hilt I'm not overly concerned by this (and will > > add appropriate checks to pgInstaller), but it's probably worth > > mentioning that our minimum supported platform is Windows 2000 Pro > > with Service Pack 4 from 8.2. > > Late into the game, yes, I definitely think this is a reasonable > requirement. (FWIW, that's the same requirements as MS put on SQL > Server) > > But yes, this should probably go in the release notes.
I have updated the 8.0 release notes to say Windows 2000SP4 supported. -- Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly