Re: [HACKERS] Supporting huge pages on Windows

On 01/22/2018 04:16 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
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>     I'll be quite happy to retire the XP machine running brolga, currawong
>     and frogmouth, if that's the consensus. XP is now long out of support.
>     OTOH I have personal experience of it running in many potentially
>     critical situations, still (hospitals, for example). 
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> But do they really run PostgreSQL 11 (or 10..) on that? In my
> experience they usually run an old business application on it only.
> That is a problem in itself of course, but that is not our problem in
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>     I can, if people
>     want, keep the machine running just building the back branches.
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> That's what I suggest we do. Removing the builds of back branches
> would be the equivalent of de-supporting it on a still supported
> branch, and I don't like that idea. But removing the master branch
> means we desupport in 11, which I think is the right thing to do.


OK, I have left the machine running but these three animals will no
longer build 11, only the back branches.

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>     I should probably look at setting up a modern 32-bit replacement (say
>     Windows 10 Pro-32).
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> Unless we want to desupport 32-bit Windows completely. But unless we
> have an actual reason to do so, I think we shouldn't. So yeah if you
> can get a box like that up and running, that'd be much welcome.


It's probably going to have to wait a couple of months, and at least a
couple of weeks.

It's worth noting that the last Windows Server edition that supported
342bit architectures was WS2008. That's quite old now. I wonder how long
they will continue to support it in the consumer-grade Windows versions.

cheers

andrew

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