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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Sandeep Thakkar <sandeep.thakkar@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Cc: Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com>
Subject: Re: Windows vs C99 (was Re: C99 compliance for src/port/snprintf.c)
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2018 14:38:28 -0400
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Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> On 2018-08-24 14:09:09 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> However, we only support VS2017 down to 9.6 and Vs2015 down to 9.5. Perhaps
>> we should consider backpatching support for those down to 9.3.

> Hm, I have no strong objections to that.   I don't think it's strictly
> necessary, given 2013 is supported across the board, but for the non MSVC
> world, we do fix compiler issues in older branches.  There's not that
> much code for the newer versions afaict?

+1 for taking a look at how big a patch it would be.  But I kind of
thought we'd intentionally rejected back-patching some of those changes
to begin with, so I'm not sure the end decision will change.

			regards, tom lane




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