Re: Stability in Windows?

On 25/02/12 04:39, Durumdara wrote:
> Hi!
>
> We planned to port some very old DBASE db into PGSQL.
>
> But somebody said in a developer list that he tried with PGSQL (8.x)
> and it was very unstable in Windows (and it have problem when many
> users use it).
>
> Another people also said that they used PGSQL only in Linux - and
> there is no problem with it, only some patches needed for speeding up
> writes...
>
> What is your experience in this theme?
>
> Do you also have same experience in Windows?
>
> The user number is from 20 to up 100 (concurrently).
>
> Thanks for your every idea, help, link, information about this.
>
> Regards:
> dd
Hmm...

I have heard that PostgreSQL is stable on a Microsoft O/S, but Linux
tends be a lot faster and more reliable than any Microsoft O/S. Which
is probably why you hear people saying they use Linux for PostgreSQL -
it is more a comment about Microsoft software quality.

Cheers,
Gavin