Re: test/example does not support win32.

Tom Lane wrote:
> "Hiroshi Saito" <z-saito@guitar.ocn.ne.jp> writes:
>   
>> Yes, I thinks that it is an exact idea. However, this example was not helped. 
>> fd_set complains.... 
>> Thanks!
>>     
>
>   
>> It seems that pg_bench takes the thing same again into consideration. 
>> Anyway,  If it is called example of end-user code, what is the evasion method
>> of fd_set? 
>>     
>
> On reflection I think it's just wrong to expect that the examples will
> compile out-of-the-box on every platform.  The only way that that can
> possibly happen is if they depend on our configuration infrastructure,
> which is exactly what I feel they should not depend on.  Any client
> program that has ambitions of portability is going to have its own
> autoconf stuff, so injecting ours into a piece of sample code is just
> going to result in headaches.  Even including only pg_config.h would
> be a serious invasion of application namespace.
>
> Looking at pgbench, or any other one of our client-side programs,
> is not relevant to the point here.  Those programs *are* supposed
> to rely on the PG autoconf environment.
>
> We can certainly add some more standard #includes to the examples
> if they're obviously missing some.  But that isn't going to get us
> to a point where they'll compile everywhere without change.
>
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>   

That would be all good and well if we didn't already rely on the 
configure setup. But we do - the Makefile includes src/Makefile.global, 
which is built by configure.

Anyway, let's see how far we can get with including some standard header 
files.

cheers

andrew