Re: VS 2015 support in src/tools/msvc

On 23/03/16 08:17, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 3:43 AM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 03/20/2016 12:02 AM, Michael Paquier wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 8:06 AM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Still to do: the non-perl pieces.
>>>
>>> The patch to address locales is the sensitive part. The patch from
>>> Petr is taking the correct approach though I think that we had better
>>> simplify it a bit and if possible we had better not rely on the else
>>> block it introduces.
>>
>>
>>
>> OK, the please send an updated set of patches for what remains.
>
> Here you go:
> - 0001 fixes the global declarations of TIMEZONE_GLOBAL and
> TZNAME_GLOBAL to be WIN32-compliant. I got bitten by that in the ECPG
> compilation.
> - 0002, support of VS2015 in the scripts of src/tools/msvc
> - 0003, this is necessary in order to run the regression tests,
> details are here:
> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAB7nPqTDiXxS8CdL8mOiVh6qFQ-1qV9mKN0AyjzYBvzv6WC0dA@mail.gmail.com

So that's basically what Andres did? Interesting that we now actually 
really need it. I was in favor of doing those changes in any case.

> - 0004 is the fix for locales. This is actually Petr's work upthread,
> I have updated comments in the code though and did a bit more
> polishing. This still looks like the cleanest solution we have. Other
> solutions are mentioned upthread: redeclaration of struct _locale_t in
> backend code is one.
>

Thanks for polishing this.

I think this is ready to be committed, but the 0003 might be somewhat 
controversial based on the original thread.

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