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From: Thomas Munro <[email protected]>
To: Michael Paquier <[email protected]>
Cc: Juan José Santamaría Flecha <[email protected]>
Cc: Postgres hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Bump MIN_WINNT to 0x0600 (Vista) as minimal runtime in 16~
Date: Sat, 28 May 2022 09:07:31 +1200
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On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 3:53 PM Michael Paquier <[email protected]> wrote:
> Windows 8 ends its support
> in 2023, it seems, so that sounds short even for PG16.

I guess you meant 8.1 here, and corresponding server release 2012 R2.
These will come to the end of their "extended" support phase in 2023,
before PG16 comes out.  If I understand correctly (and I'm not a
Windows user, I just googled this), they will start showing blue
full-screen danger-Will-Robinson alerts about viruses and malware.
Why would we have explicit support for that in a new release?  Do we
want people putting their users' data in such a system?  Can you go to
GDPR jail for that in Europe?  (Joking, I think).

We should go full Marie Kondo on EOL'd OSes that are not in our CI or
build farm, IMHO.





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