Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Not 7.5, but 8.0 ?

Użytkownik Shachar Shemesh napisał:

> Dave Page wrote:
>
>> Right, but not having the luxury of time travel (wasn't that removed in
>> Postgres95? ;-) ) we can only go by what the majority think. We won't
>> know if it's actually right unless we try it.
>>
>> We could run a survey saying 'would you use PostgreSQL on win32',  but
>> the chances are that the vast majority of potential win32 users would
>> not visit the site to answer that until it became widely know that we do
>> support win32, by which time of course it's all a bit moot.
>>
>> Unless of course, you have other stats that prove that win32 support is
>> uninteresting to most people and potential users?
>>
>> Regards, Dave.
>>
>>
> I'm sorry if I'm being alow here - is there any problem with running a
> production server on cygwin's postgresql? Is the cygwin port of lesser
> quality, or otherwise inferior?

Performance, performance, perfomance... and perfomance... it is (almost)
always worse perfomance when we emulate something... and using Cygwin we
  are emulating U*nix...