> > I don't think anyone ever imagined that the bug actually allowed > > people to use utilities in a way that was useful to them, but > > unintended by everyone else. Had we done, we would > certainly have made > > the warnings more obvious and considered workarounds. > > Actually, we thought that this had all been resolved years > ago when we made the Unix versions work like that; fixing the > Windows code to behave like the Unix versions seemed minor. Yeah... > What I find surprising is that it seems a substantial > community of apps is already in existence that have never > been run with anything but Windows Postgres. Doesn't surprise me one bit, really. Also, remember that we're talking win32 *client*, which has been around a long time. psql, for example, has built on win32 since 6.something IIRC. So you could very well have client apps and such that used that behaviour running against a Unix PostgreSQL. //Magnus
