Re: narwhal and PGDLLIMPORT

On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 11:39:43AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > On 2014-02-12 11:26:56 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Hm.  So if we're giving up on the idea of ever getting rid of PGDLLIMPORT,
> >> we ought to actually remove that, so that the Cygwin build works more like
> >> the other Windows builds?
> 
> > Hm, I don't see a big advantage in detecting the errors as It won't
> > hugely increase the buildfarm coverage. But --auto-import seems to
> > require marking the .text sections as writable, avoiding that seems to
> > be a good idea if we don't need it anymore.
> 
> Given the rather small number of Windows machines in the buildfarm,
> I'd really like them all to be on the same page about what's valid
> and what isn't.  Having to wait ~24 hours to find out if they're
> all happy with something isn't my idea of a good time.  In any case,
> as long as we have discrepancies between them, I'm not going to be
> entirely convinced that any of them are telling the full truth.
> 
> I'm going to go remove that switch and see if brolga starts failing.
> If it does, I'll be satisfied that we understand the issues here.

Can document the issue in case it comes up again, please?

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