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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Remove support for old realpath() API
Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2024 10:08:04 -0400
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Heikki Linnakangas <[email protected]> writes:
> We don't seem to have any mentions of POSIX or SuS in docs, in the 
> installation sections. There are a few mentions of POSIX-1.2008 and 
> POSIX-1.2001 it in the commit log, though, where we require features 
> specified by those. Can we rely on everything from POSIX-1-2008 
> nowadays, or is it more on a case-by-case basis, depending on which 
> parts of POSIX are supported by various platforms?

I'd say it's still case-by-case.  Perhaps everything in POSIX-1.2008
is supported now on every platform we care about, but perhaps not.

			regards, tom lane

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