Hi On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 6:30 PM, Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote:
> Hi, > > On 2018-08-16 14:28:25 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > On 16/08/2018 01:06, Andres Freund wrote: > > > So it looks like msvc 2013 might be the relevant requirement. > > > > According to my research (completely untested in practice), you need > > 2010 for mixed code and declarations and 2013 for named initialization > > of structs. > > > > I wonder what raising the msvc requirement would imply for supporting > > older Windows versions. > > One relevant tidbit is that afaict 2013 still allows *targeting* older > versions of windows, down to XP and 2003, while requiring a newer > platforms to run. See: > https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/productinfo/ > vs2013-compatibility-vs > I don't know if that's hard to do, but I strongly suspect that the > existing installers already do that (otherwise supporting newer versions > would likely require separate builds). > > 2013 still runs on Windows 7, should you want that: > https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/productinfo/ > vs2013-sysrequirements-vs > > According to https://www.postgresql.org/download/windows/ > the available binaries already effectively restrict windows support: > > EDB installers, for 10, restrict to: > 64 Bit Windows: 2016, 2012 R2 & R1, 2008 R2, 7, 8, 10 > 32 Bit Windows: 2008 R1, 7, 8, 10 > > BIGSQL to: Windows 10 and Windows Server 2012. > > Of those 2013 only doesn't run on 2008 R1 anymore. Which still can be > targeted from the newer windows versions. > > > It'd be good to get confirmation that the windows binaries / installers > are indeed built on newer platforms than the oldest supported version. > > We build windows binaries (>=9.3) on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2012 R2. For 9.3, the Visual Studio version is 2010 and for 9.4 and v10, we use 2013. For v11, we use 2017. > Random observation: http://www.openscg.com/bigsql/postgresql/installers/ > seems to indicate that packages aren't updated anymore. While it says > "(09-Aug-18)" besides the major versions, it does not actually in fact > have the last set of minor releases. I suspect that's related to > openscg's acquisition by amazon? Either they need to catch up, or we > need to take down the page and probably alert people about that fact. > > Greetings, > > Andres Freund > -- Sandeep Thakkar
