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From: Michael Paquier <[email protected]>
To: Thomas Munro <[email protected]>
Cc: Postgres hackers <[email protected]>
Cc: Juan José Santamaría Flecha <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Bump MIN_WINNT to 0x0600 (Vista) as minimal runtime in 16~
Date: Thu, 26 May 2022 13:27:52 +0900
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In-Reply-To: <CA+hUKGKkOytTq6WQy9goQA9dQ2m1BDYgtwCdYW=PapVsCqAtGg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 04:16:40PM +1200, Thomas Munro wrote:
> I think we should drop everything older than Win 10 for PG16, as
> argued in various threads where various pain points came up.  For one
> thing, that would make a lot of future work simpler (ie not needing to
> test alternative code paths on dead computers without CI or BF, AKA
> dead code), and also I don't think we really help anyone by allowing
> new database deployments on operating systems that aren't receiving
> vendor patches on the world's most attacked operating system.  Doing
> it incrementally is fine by me, too, though, if it makes the patches
> and discussions easier...

Is there anything posted recently that would require that?  Perhaps
the async work?  FWIW, I agree to be much more aggressive, but there
is nothing in the tree now that depends on _WIN32_WINNT, except one
change for the locales.
--
Michael


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