| From: | Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee> |
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| To: | Ian Lance Taylor <ian(at)airs(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Dwayne Miller <dmiller(at)espgroup(dot)net>, mlw <markw(at)mohawksoft(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Porting to Native WindowsNT/2000 |
| Date: | 2001-09-02 14:28:01 |
| Message-ID: | 3B9241F1.450A0EE2@tm.ee |
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Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>
> "Dwayne Miller" <dmiller(at)espgroup(dot)net> writes:
>
>
> As mlw said, porting Postgres to run natively on Windows would be a
> significant effort. The forking mechanism it uses currently would
> have to be completely rearchitected. The buffer, file manager, and
> networking code would have to be rewritten. Off the top of my head,
> for a top programmer who is an expert in Unix, Windows, and Postgres,
> it might take a year.
IIRC someone had the backend working in multithreaded mode (actually
he had one of the forked backends doing it) as a part of some
java-driven backend.
From the description of it it seemed that it did not take a full
man-year to get there ;)
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Hannu
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