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From: Aleksander Alekseev <[email protected]>
To: Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Cygwin support
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2025 15:10:51 +0300
Message-ID: <CAJ7c6TNyAs_s7+5C4uZBvwoxsnYPDonR0r2zSJ5EpdH0-oz7TA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
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Hi Andrew,

> Last year the old Windows machine where I was running the buildfarm
> member lorikeet died, and since then we've had no buildfarm coverage for
> Cygwin. I now have a new (but slow) W11pro machine and I have been
> testing out Cygwin builds on it. I wanted to have it running the TAP
> tests, unlike lorikeet. Attached is a set of very small patches aimed at
> enabling this.
>
> [...]

Thanks for the patches.

I wonder though if it is advisable to support Cygwin if this requires
extra effort from our side, compared to a regular Linux or Windows
environment. I actually like the project but I wouldn't recommend
running Postgres on prod, and for development these days it's simpler
to use WSL / VirtualBox / Raspberry Pi, or running Postgres natively
on Windows.

-- 
Best regards,
Aleksander Alekseev

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