Re: Cygwin? or paid version from SRA?

Richard Huxton wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 October 2003 05:34, David So wrote:
>>
>> For deploying PostgreSQL on Windoz platform, which one is a better
>> option (performance, reliability) ? Thru Cygwin or Paid version from
>> SRA?
>
> I know one person who was quite happy with the windows version from
> http://www.dbexperts.net/. He wanted a "spare" PG server but didn't have the
> time/inclination to learn how to manage a Linux server.

Yeah, that dbexperts version. Copy their dbx.dll to a unix box and run
"strings -a dbx.dll" and you'll see that this is a modified cygwin.dll
without sourcecode. I would be very careful these days in advertising that.


Jan

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