From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Cc: Pg Docs <pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Installation on Cygwin
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2020 11:52:24 -0400
Message-ID: <20200831155224.GC13613@momjian.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <36B39703-734E-480A-82D1-F66A481F8694@yesql.se>
References: <36B39703-734E-480A-82D1-F66A481F8694@yesql.se>
On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 09:40:59PM +0200, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> I happened to stumble over the Cygwin section of the installation docs, and was
> surprised to see references to not entirely bleeding-edge Windows versions:
>
> "The adduser command is not supported; use the appropriate user management
> application on Windows NT, 2000, or XP. Otherwise, skip this step."
>
> Not knowing the first thing about Cygwin I might be out cycling here; it does
> sound like it's about due for an update to reflect current versions of Windows,
> or is this just relevant for older versions? Skimming backwards we have, with
> various wordings, recommendeed against Cygwin since 8.0, the current wording
> going back to 8.4 more or less unchanged.
I am thinking the list of operating systems should just be removed.
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Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> https://momjian.us
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