[Snowball-discuss] C compiler requirements

[Olly Betts]

On Mon, Nov 09, 2020 at 12:33:26AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Olly Betts <olly at survex.com> writes:
> > I'd also like to hear from anyone actually needing C90 support still,
> > or (since I know only a small fraction of users read this list) anyone
> > who even just knows of an actual situation where C90 is still needed
> > (even if they aren't actually using snowball there).
> 
> FWIW, the Postgres project maintained C90 compliance for years too.
> We dropped that and started to require a C99 compiler as of last
> year's release (12.0), and we have received exactly zero push-back.

Thanks Tom - that's a really useful (and reassuring) data point.

Cheers,
    Olly