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To: Magnus Hagander <mha@sollentuna.net>
cc: nico@clubdelphi.com, pgsql-interfaces@hub.org
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] win32 libpq version is "too new" 
In-reply-to: Your message of Tue, 27 Apr 1999 16:46:57 +0200
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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:17:03 -0400
Message-ID: <8554.925226223@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Magnus Hagander <mha@sollentuna.net> writes:
> I beleive there is none. At least not native Win32. There were major changes
> required to libpq to make it possible to run it under Win32, and these
> changes appeared in 6.4.
> It would be possible to do it for 6.3, but it would require a huge amount of
> work. The pre-6.4 libpq client used fdopen() and then the fxxx() operations
> on the sockets. This does not work under Win32. 6.4 started using the direct
> send() and recv() calls, which are portable to Windows.

Ah, I had forgotten that connection.  Yup, it was all the same rewrite
of libpq that both made it dependent on the new-for-6.4 protocol and
converted it to use direct socket calls.  When I did that I had no idea
I was making it practical to port the library to Windows ;-) --- that
was a pleasant side-effect.

So it may be that indeed there is no DLL available for 6.3.  Sorry...

			regards, tom lane