On Fri, 8 Apr 2022 at 05:41, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Michael Paquier <mich...@paquier.xyz> writes: > > On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 02:56:15PM +1200, Thomas Munro wrote: > >> I propose that we drop support for Windows versions older than > >> 10/Server 2016 in the PostgreSQL 16 cycle, > > Do we have any data on what people are actually using? >
None that I know of. Anecdotally, we dropped support for pgAdmin on Windows < 8 (2012 for the server edition), and had a single complaint - and the user happily acknowledged they were on an old release and expected support to be dropped sooner or later. Windows 8 was a pretty unpopular release, so I would expect shifting to 10/2016+ for PG 16 would be unlikely to be a major problem. FWIW, Python dropped support for < 8/2012 with v3.9. > > > Do you think that we could raise the minimum C standard on WIN32 to > > C11, at least for MSVC? > > As long as the C11-isms are in MSVC-only code, it seems like this is > exactly equivalent to setting a minimum MSVC version. I don't see > an objection-in-principle there, it's just a practical question of > how far back is reasonable to support MSVC versions. (That's very > distinct from how far back we need the built code to run.) > > regards, tom lane > > > -- Dave Page Blog: https://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EDB: https://www.enterprisedb.com
