Re: windows distribution

On Mon, 22 Dec 2003, Adrian Klaver wrote:

> On Monday 22 December 2003 08:16 am, Keith C. Perry wrote:
>
> > I'm not familiar with the cygwin environment but is there something about
> > that is turning off users to using it to run PG?
> >
> > It seems to me we should be seeing *more* ports about how PG is performing
> > on cygwin instead of questions about a native port- especially from new
> > users.
>
> The problem is not so much Cygwin as the platform it runs on. It is Unix
> emulation on Windows and therefore is only as stable as the version of
> Windows you are using. I have run Postgres using Cygwin on various Win9x
> versions. The Cygwin installer makes the process easy to do. The problem is
> that it doesn't take much to load down the system. Also, given the frequency
> with which Win9X versions crash you spend alot of time waiting for the
> database to come up again. All in all it was more productive to move Postgres
> to a dedicated Linux server.

But please note that if one had a reliable winxp/2k class box that would
probably be much more reliable.  But it would still be much slower than
linux on the same hardware.