Re: [mail] Re: Native Win32 sources

Al, to be honest I don't think the Windows native would save hassle,
rather it'd probably cause more! No disrespect to those doing the
version, read on for reasoning...

Yes, you get a beta of a Windows native version just now, yes it
probably will not be that long till the source is a available... But
how long till it's part of a cosha PostgreSQL release? Version
7.4... Could be up to six months... Do you want to run pre-release
versions in the meantime? Don't think so, not in a production
environment!

So, the real way to save hassle is probably a cheap commodity PC with
Linux installed... Or settle for the existing, non-native, Windows
version.

By the way, just to open Office documents? Have you tried OpenOffice?

Regards, Lee Kindness.

Al Sutton writes:
> Is there a rough date for when they'll be available?
>
> I have a development team at work who currently have an M$-Windows box and a
> Linux box each in order to allow them to read M$-Office documents sent to us
> and develop against PostgreSQL (which we use in production).
>
> I know I could have a shared Linux box with multiple databases and have them
> bind to that, but one of the important aspects of our application is
> response time, and you can't accurately measure response times for code
> changes on a shared system.
>
> Having a Win32 native version would save a lot of hassles for me.
>
> Al.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bruce Momjian" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
>
> > Ulrich Neumann wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > i've read that there are 2 different native ports for Windows
> > > somewhere.
> > >
> > > I've searched for them but didn't found them. Is there anyone who can
> > > point me to a link or send me a copy of the sources?
> >
> > Oh, you are probably asking about the sources. They are not publically
> > available yet.