Re: Installing PostgreSQL on Win 2003 R2 64-bit

On 4/28/06, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> "Magnus Hagander" <mha@sollentuna.net> writes:
> >> On 4/27/06, Aly Dharshi <aly.dharshi@telus.net> wrote:
> >> Either of these approaches could work, but expect to be
> >> hacking around wierd problems.  There is decent chance pgsql
> >> will be officially supported on windows as of 8.2, scheduled
> >> for release this summer.
>
> > Um. That's the first I heard 8.2 was scheduled for release this summer.
> > AFAIK the curernt time-estimate is that it shuld go beta towards the end
> > of the summer, which means a release sometime Q4 if we follow previous
> > patterns.

hm, ok. I thought freeze was jul 1. which would have put release in
late summer (or fall)...oh well.

> I was kind of amused by the bit about "officially supported as of 8.2",
> too.  That doesn't have anything to do with any reality I know of.

By that I meant Mangus's msvc patch would be accepted into core
sources for 8.2.  What I was trying to indicate was that there is a
decent chance of being able to build via msvc in 8.2...I expect (hope)
that this will happen...sorry to sound presumptious though.

Merlin