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Re: Updated: postgresql-7.2-2


>  Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 08:10:00 -0500
>  From: Jason Tishler <jason@tishler.net>
>  
>  <!!!!! WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING !!!!!!>
>  
>  Note that this distribution will *not* function correctly with Cygwin
>  1.3.9-1.  If you want to use this distribution, then you *must* upgrade
>  your Cygwin DLL to a recent snapshot (i.e., 2002-Feb-10 or later) or to
>  the next release after 1.3.9-1 (when available).
>  
>  </!!!!! WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING !!!!!!>

This seems like a singularly bad idea.  This means that if someone
downloads setup.exe from the Cygwin site and installs a bunch of
packages from scratch including postgresql, it won't work.  Blech.

Couldn't the postgresql update have waited until after a new version
of the DLL was released?

  jik


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