What are the economics of this? I used PostgreSQL and Cygwin 25 years ago
and am amazed it is still a thing.
How much effort is it to support PostgreSQL on Cygwin?
How many actual users are using PostgreSQL on cygwin in production? (I
should hope none!)
I would say it is something that should be a
On 2025-04-21 Mo 12:29 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
Last year the old Windows machine where I was running the buildfarm
member lorikeet died, and since then we've had no buildfarm coverage
for Cygwin. I now have a new (but slow) W11pro machine and I have been
testing out Cygwin builds on it. I
On 2025-04-22 Tu 12:55 PM, Laurenz Albe wrote:
On Tue, 2025-04-22 at 10:26 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
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
On Tue, 2025-04-22 at 10:26 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> 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).
https://postgr.es/m/CACLU5
On 2025-04-22 Tu 10:26 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
Andrew Dunstan 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
Andrew Dunstan 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 burd
On 2025-04-22 Tu 8:10 AM, Aleksander Alekseev wrote:
Hi Andrew,
Last year the old Windows machine where I was running the buildfarm
member lorikeet died, and since then we've had no buildfarm coverage for
Cygwin. I now have a new (but slow) W11pro machine and I have been
testing out Cygwin bu
Hi Andrew,
> Last year the old Windows machine where I was running the buildfarm
> member lorikeet died, and since then we've had no buildfarm coverage for
> Cygwin. I now have a new (but slow) W11pro machine and I have been
> testing out Cygwin builds on it. I wanted to have it running the TAP
>
