Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> 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). regards, tom lane