This supposed to be just a short TIL entry about PSQL_EDITOR variable. While trying to figure out all possible pitfalls, I’ve decided to write a full blog post. You may skip to the summary though. All tests done on Windows 10 with PostgreSQL 12 installed. As you know, PostgreSQL ships with an interactive console tool […]

I’ve written already a blog post “Building PostgreSQL with MSYS2 and MinGW under Windows” a year ago. But this time I want to show you two important things: cross compiling (x86, x64) using the same run-time; compiling with the latest OpenSSL support.   That’s true nowadays you won’t find binaries or installations of PostgreSQL without […]

Preface There are several ways of building PostgreSQL under Windows. Official manual stands using Visual Studio is the simplest one, wiki describes how to use mingw and mingw-w64. As for me, using new MSYS2 building platform for Windows is a bless. With its help not only PostgreSQL sources are built smoothly, but even extensions are […]