Re: Postgres 32bit on Windows 64bit, related components

Hi Jayadevan,

We're adding to our server farm, which is Windows. We use Windows as our application is .NET based, and related components in our systems require Windows. Switching to *nix is not an option.

I'm just after some assurance that all the extra 32bit components in Postgres will run OK under 64bit Windows. I mean allegedly *anything* 32bit is supposed to run under 64bit, but it's not always this simple in practice.

-Brendan

-----Original Message-----
From: Jayadevan M [mailto:Jayadevan(dot)Maymala(at)ibsplc(dot)com]
Sent: Wednesday, 8 September 2010 4:42 PM
To: Brendan Hill
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org; pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Postgres 32bit on Windows 64bit, related components

> We're about to purchase a new server for our Postgres 8.4 database.
> We’d like to go with Windows 64bit for possible future developments,
> but are happy to stick with 32bit Postgres + Npgsql, ODBC, OpenSSL,
> slony2 and libxml2, libpq.
Any specific reasons for choosing Windows? Once in a while, I see someone
posting issues about PostgreSQL on windows and replies which go 'Windows?
hmmm...not sure about that ..". Of course, those were not questions about
queries/query tuning etc. Those get answered. These questions mostly deal
with crashes/recovery/security related and so on.