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From: Daniel Gustafsson <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Paquier <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Munro <[email protected]>
Cc: Andres Freund <[email protected]>
Cc: Julien Rouhaud <[email protected]>
Cc: Niyas Sait <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add native windows on arm64 support
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2022 16:55:27 +0200
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> On 7 Apr 2022, at 15:40, Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Michael Paquier <[email protected]> writes:
>> On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 11:38:44AM +1300, Thomas Munro wrote:
>>> Yeah.  I think we should commit this patch, but decree that
>>> Windows/aarch64 support is experimental only for now.  That allows a
>>> build farm animal to be set up.  Then we add a bit of extra logging
>>> and see how it does running our test suite over time and learn more.
> 
>> I don't have such a setup so my testing capabilities are limited.
>> Does anybody have one?  I think that we could be flexible for this
>> patch, even after feature freeze as it introduces something entirely
>> new without impacting the existing code.  The patch has been moved to
>> the next CF for now.
> 
> I dunno, the lack of any in-house capability for this makes me very
> nervous.  If it causes problems down the road, how will we debug it?

If those with an interest in such platform support cannot spare the cycles to
at least run a buildfarm member, then it seems a stretch for us to maintain
such support with any confidence.

> So it seems like the sort of patch to put in at the beginning of a
> development cycle, not post-feature-freeze.

+1

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Daniel Gustafsson		https://vmware.com/

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