Re: Porting to Native WindowsNT/2000

"Ken Hirsch" <kenhirsch(at)myself(dot)com> writes:
>>> Three.... can you start cygwin programs on startup of the system?

> It's not quite as simple as that. You can run it as a service under the
> SRVANY program, but that doesn't provide for a clean shut-down. Has anybody
> written an NT service wrapper for Postgresql?

IIRC, Jason Tishler was working on one awhile back. Check the mailing
list archives.

As far as the general topic goes: this has come up several times before,
and the conclusion has always been that a native Windows port would
require effort (both initial, and ongoing maintenance) vastly out of
proportion to the reward.

But it occurs to me that it might be useful to provide a downloadable
package that includes both the Postgres server and as much of Cygwin
as you need to run it, all wrapped up in a nice friendly installer.

regards, tom lane