| From: | Reini Urban <rurban(at)x-ray(dot)at> |
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| To: | sgoldstein(at)apache(dot)org |
| Cc: | pgsql-cygwin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Postgres 8.0 vs. Postgres 7.4/Cygwin |
| Date: | 2005-06-24 05:13:22 |
| Message-ID: | 42BB9672.1030603@x-ray.at |
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Scott Goldstein schrieb:
> I'm currently trying to make a decision on whether to use the Cygwin
> port of Postgres 7.4 or Postgres 8.0 for a windows installation. Can
> someone provide some comparison info? Specifically,
>
> 1. Is the Cygwin port viable for an enterprise environment?
no, certainly not. try the native windows port instead.
> Does it perform? Is it reliable?
On about 10% percent of the cygwin 8.0 users it has yet unsolved IPC
problems on initial startup.
Loading the perl interpreter (plperl) has also caused IPC problems. (7.4
and 8.0)
> 2. How reliable is the Cygwin port compared to the 8.0 Windows version?
> 3. Has the Cygwin port been used very much in enterprise systems, or is
> it intended only for development environments?
yes, the latter.
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Reini Urban
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