On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 06:25:53PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Narayan Murthy K S writes:
> > If you look at the last line it says " use of PostgreSQL in a Cygwin
> > environment is not recommended" - why is this so. What are the
> > problems that one could encounter when using PostgreSQL under the
> > cygwin environment.
>
> If the author doesn't provide an explanation for this statement then
> he's just spreading rumors.
Agreed.
> PostgreSQL on Cygwin works fine.
However, to be fair there are issues:
o maximum of 63 backends
o greater than "normal" connection delays
All of the above are due to Cygwin's attempt to map fork() semantics
onto Win32 APIs -- which is no easy feat.
Jason
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