Windows XP - PostgreSQL's long goodbye.

I just committed a patch to allow building with Visual Studio 2015. Due to a change in the way we need to detect locales with this compiler, it will not be possible to use binaries built with it on Windows XP. Despite the fact that Microsoft declared Windows XP to be completely out of support well over a year ago, it still lives on in a huge number of installations. My own instance still gets occasional updates from Microsoft. And you can still build and run the very latest PostgreSQL on Windows XP. But you can't use it on Windows XP if it's built with Visual Studio 2015 or later.

I will keep my instance (whose only job is to run several buildfarm members) running as long as it doesn't require any significant tweaks. But a day will eventually come when it does require such tweaks, or just won't build and run successfully any more,  and at that stage I'll shut it down.