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To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Aleksander Alekseev <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Cygwin support
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2025 10:54:46 -0400
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On 2025-04-22 Tu 10:26 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]> writes:
>> I agree that I would not normally use Cygwin to run a Postgres instance.
>> But its psql is nicer than others on Windows because unlike the native
>> builds we build it with readline. That's why I've kept a buildfarm
>> animal going all these years. If the maintenance burden were high I
>> wouldn't do so - but it's not really. And these patches are tiny.
> I vaguely recall some discussion about whether building with readline
> has become possible under MSVC. I think it'd make a lot of people
> happy if that could happen (but I hasten to add that I'm not
> volunteering).
>
>
Neither am I, although I'll test it if somebody sends in a patch. If
that happens I'll be happy enough to retire Cygwin support.
cheers
andrew
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