A newbie's opinion - postgres NEEDS a Windows binary!
От | cs1spw@bath.ac.uk (Simon Willison) |
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Тема | A newbie's opinion - postgres NEEDS a Windows binary! |
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Msg-id | eb8b2b6e.0111190242.4dc02e7d@posting.google.com обсуждение исходный текст |
Список | pgsql-general |
This is my first time posting here and I've not lurked that much so feel free to lamblast me if I'm out of line - but from what I've seen of PostGres one of the biggest barriers to more widespread use is the lack of an easy to use windows binary. I'm a PHP/mySQL web developer who would love to switch over to using Postgres, but since I do all my development under windows (I've got linux installed but due to various things I find windows a more productive environment on the desktop) I've hit something of a dead end. I tried installing cygwin but failed to get it working properly, and there's no way I'm going to shell out for a Windows C++ compiler to compile from scratch. I know I am not alone - I've seen hundreds of posts on message boards / mailing lists from people in a similar situation to me who desperately want to learn postgres but can't get it working on windows. For all it's faults, mySQL has a nice easy to use windows distribution which you can download, install and use straight away. Are there any plans for an easy to use windows binary? Has this been discussed a thousand times before (I did a search on google groups but didn't find much)? Do I ask too many questions? Cheers, Simon
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