Specify which versions of the Platform SDK are supported

Anything including Visual Studio 2010 compilers is not yet
supported for building on Windows.

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/install-windows.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/install-windows.sgml
index f6d38c1a679e02ae5eae43958b32372ff4d5f4be..72a700fdcc87c5c37f2a8bbdd247aacb7ebd46d2 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/install-windows.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/install-windows.sgml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
  
   There are several different ways of building PostgreSQL on
   Windows. The simplest way to build with
-  Microsoft tools is to install a modern version of the
+  Microsoft tools is to install a supported version of the
   Microsoft Platform SDK and use use the included
   compiler. It is also possible to build with the full
   Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 or 2008. In some cases
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
  
   PostgreSQL can be built using the Visual C++ compiler suite from Microsoft.
   These compilers can be either from Visual Studio,
-  Visual Studio Express or recent versions of the
+  Visual Studio Express or some versions of the
   Platform SDK. If you do not already have a
   Visual Studio environment set up, the easiest
   way us to use the compilers in the Platform SDK,
@@ -87,6 +87,14 @@
   Visual Studio 2008. When using the Platform SDK
   only, or when building for 64-bit Windows, only
   Visual Studio 2008 is supported.
+  Visual Studio 2010 is not yet supported.
+ 
+
+ 
+  When building using the Platform SDK, versions
+  6.0 to 7.0 of the SDK are supported. Older or newer versions will not work.
+  In particular, versions from 7.0a and later will not work, since
+  they include compilers from Visual Studio 2010.