diff --git a/src/test/thread/thread_test.c b/src/test/thread/thread_test.c
index 51912f57f7b796b5825e0a05a555fdb20ced1491..d952b6fc1d905373017d08d6f53236d99e6c9923 100644
--- a/src/test/thread/thread_test.c
+++ b/src/test/thread/thread_test.c
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  * Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2008, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
  * Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
  *
- *	$PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/test/thread/thread_test.c,v 1.5 2008/01/01 19:46:01 momjian Exp $
+ *	$PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/test/thread/thread_test.c,v 1.6 2008/11/18 21:17:26 mha Exp $
  *
  *	This program tests to see if your standard libc functions use
  *	pthread_setspecific()/pthread_getspecific() to be thread-safe.
@@ -47,6 +47,10 @@ typedef char bool;
 #include <fcntl.h>
 #include <errno.h>
 
+/* CYGWIN requires this for MAXHOSTNAMELEN */
+#ifdef __CYGWIN__
+#include <sys/param.h>
+#endif
 
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