Re: Roadmap for a Win32 port

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Mark kirkwood <markir(at)slingshot(dot)co(dot)nz>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Roadmap for a Win32 port
Date: 2002-06-05 15:18:29
Message-ID: 200206051518.g55FITf09821@candle.pha.pa.us
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Mark kirkwood wrote:
> Is it worth looking at how the mysql crowd did their win32 port -
> (or is that intrinsically a _bad_thing_ to do..) ?
>
> (I am guessing that is why their sources requires c++ ....)

Absolutely worth seeing how MySQL does it. They use cygwin, and I
assume they aren't seeing the fork() issue because they are threaded,
and perhaps they don't use SysV IPC like we do.

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