Date: Tue, 27 May 2025 10:10:14 -0500
From: Ken Marshall <ktm@rice.edu>
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Subject: Re: Cygwin support
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On Tue, May 27, 2025 at 10:53:55AM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> 
> On 2025-04-28 Mo 4:53 PM, Mark Woodward wrote:
> > What are the economics of this? I used PostgreSQL and Cygwin 25 years
> > ago and am amazed it is still a thing.
> > How much effort is it to support PostgreSQL on Cygwin?
> > How many actual users are using PostgreSQL on cygwin in production? (I
> > should hope none!)
> > 
> > I would say it is something that should be announced as "deprecated" and
> > see how many people complain, my bet no one will really care. Cygwin was
> > a phenomenal hack in its day but I believe that those days have passed.
> 
> 
> 
> Please don't top-post on PostgreSQL lists.
> 
> I don't see it as our role to pass judgements like this on what people use.
> While Cygwin exists it's not our province to deprecate its use. If the
> maintenance effort were onerous I might be willing to relook at our support
> for it, but the simple answer to your first question is that the maintenance
> effort is close to zero. As I pointed out elsewhere in this thread, even if
> the server has limited use, the Cygwin psql client is nicer to use on
> Windows than the native build, reason enough to keep it going, at least
> until we improve the native build.
> 
> 
> cheers
> andrew
> --
> Andrew Dunstan
> EDB: https://www.enterprisedb.com

+1

I also have known of environments where Cygwin was an allowed
application and native Windows applications were severely restricted. Go
figure.

Regards,
Ken