Re: Postgres 8.x on Windows Server in production

From: Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz <gryzman(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: Ognjen Blagojevic <ognjen(at)etf(dot)bg(dot)ac(dot)yu>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Postgres 8.x on Windows Server in production
Date: 2009-04-10 20:39:56
Message-ID: 2f4958ff0904101339q23ddac3dx21e7e154558184e9@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
> Yet 1000's of users are running PostgreSQL on Windows in production.  It
> really depends on what kind of application you're running, and what its
> demands are.  For a CMS or a contact manager or a personnel directory? No
> problem.  For a central payroll system for 18,000 employees?    I'd use
> Linux.

Confirmed from my experience too.

On top of that, I would like to add - that using it on windows first,
might be a good step ahead. And installing linux on server isn't so
hard anymore, and shouldn't be a problem, unlike 8 years ago :)

Give it a try, and please tell us what sort of application you want to
put on it.

--
GJ

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