From: Thomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>
To: pgsql-committers@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: pgsql: Require ucrt if using MinGW.
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2024 10:20:37 +0000
Message-ID: <E1tGF9x-003jv4-DH@gemulon.postgresql.org> (raw)
Require ucrt if using MinGW.
Historically we tolerated the absence of various C runtime library
features for the benefit of the MinGW tool chain, because it used
ancient msvcrt.dll for a long period of time. It now uses ucrt by
default (like Windows 10+, Visual Studio 2015+), and that's the only
configuration we're testing.
In practice, we effectively required ucrt already in PostgreSQL 17, when
commit 8d9a9f03 required _create_locale etc, first available in
msvcr120.dll (Visual Studio 2013, the last of the pre-ucrt series of
runtimes), and for MinGW users that practically meant ucrt because it
was difficult or impossible to use msvcr120.dll. That may even not have
been the first such case, but old MinGW configurations had already
dropped off our testing radar so we weren't paying much attention.
This commit formalizes the requirement. It also removes a couple of
obsolete comments that discussed msvcrt.dll limitations, and some tests
of !defined(_MSC_VER) to imply msvcrt.dll. There are many more
anachronisms, but it'll take some time to figure out how to remove them
all. APIs affected relate to locales, UTF-8, threads, large files and
more.
Thanks to Peter Eisentraut for the documentation change. It's not
really necessary to talk about ucrt explicitly in such a short section,
since it's the default for MinGW-w64 and MSYS2. It's enough to prune
references and broken links to much older tools.
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d9e7731c-ca1b-477c-9298-fa51e135574a%40eisentraut.org
Branch
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master
Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/1758d42446161f5dfae9b14791c5640239b86faa
Modified Files
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doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml | 60 ++++-----------------------------------
src/backend/utils/adt/pg_locale.c | 19 -------------
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 74 deletions(-)
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