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Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 18:59:14 -0700
From: "Gavin M. Roy" <gmr@ehpg.net>
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To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, Dave Page <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>,
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Subject: Re: PGSQL-WINDOWS mailing list?
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Don't ya think pgsql-sql-windows  is a bit overkill?  It's not like pg's 
behavior re sql changes on windows.

Gavin

Marc G. Fournier wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Josh Berkus wrote:
>
>> Dave,
>>
>>> That's a different issue altogether though (perfectly valid though). Is
>>> there a more appropriate way to split the existing groups perhaps? I'm
>>> opposed to shifting the windows users onto a platform specific group
>>> just because there's a lot of them. I'm not opposed to shifting them if
>>> we find there are lots of platform specific problems though.
>>
>>
>> Well, unfortunately, at least 70% of the Windows users can be counted 
>> on not
>> to differentiate platform-specific issues from general ones.  And 
>> given the
>> flakyness of the platform, I expect there to be continuous issues.  
>> Also, I'd
>> really rather not have a 25-post thread on PGSQL-SQL discussing how 
>> XP-SP3
>> breaks PostgreSQL.
>>
>> While there are other possible lists we could add, the advantage of
>> PGSQL-WINDOWS is that it would attract a substantial portion of the new
>> users, which, for example, a list named PGSQL-INSTALL might not.
>
>
> I'm not ant-pgsql-windows, but I fear that the one thing you are 
> trying to avoid is going to happen if we do create it ... namely, all 
> new windows users will subscribe to that one list and post everything 
> under the sun to it, making that one list pretty useless :(
>
> If anything, altho it might be long, let's do something like:
>
> pgsql-general-windows
> pgsql-novice-windows
> pgsql-admin-windows
> pgsql-sql-windows
>
> or something like that ... so that its not just the one list ...
>
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