Re: [HACKERS] Not 7.5, but 8.0 ?

From: Claudio Natoli <claudio(dot)natoli(at)memetrics(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Not 7.5, but 8.0 ?
Date: 2003-11-18 12:26:19
Message-ID: A02DEC4D1073D611BAE8525405FCCE2B028025@harris.memetrics.local
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> > I'm sorry if I'm being alow here - is there any problem with running a
> > production server on cygwin's postgresql? Is the cygwin port of lesser
> > quality, or otherwise inferior?
>
> Performance, performance, perfomance... and perfomance... it is (almost)
> always worse perfomance when we emulate something... and using Cygwin we
> are emulating U*nix...

Absolutely. The DB throughput available to our application with postgresql
under cygwin is about 1/3 of what we get under Linux with a similar spec
machine/config.

That, and, more importantly, the odd spurious cygipc lock up, precludes our
use of postgresql/cygwin in a production setting. And not having postgresql
available on all our target platforms (which includes Windows) precludes the
use of it at all, as we desire a single DB solution. I don't imagine we are
the only ones in this situation (and to all those who see a Windows port as
"uninteresting", please keep this in mind).

Hopefully, we can change this situation soon...

Cheers,
Claudio

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