Re: windows distribution

A good indicator of the demand that there is for a native Win32 port. I
know it's already in the works, but I think that the upswing in
popularity of PG will be huge once the port is complete.

Whether you love or loath Windows, it's hard to ignore the potential
market share for a project like PG. IMHO it's one of the keys to the
success of MySQL, but I won't dredge up that ol' chestnut.

Cheers

T.

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Russ Brown wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 12:11:51 -0800 (PST), Jeff Eckermann
> <jeff_eckermann(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:
>
>>
>> --- Nikola Skoric <nick-news(at)net4u(dot)hr> wrote:
>>
>>> Is there windows distribution of PostgreSQL? I
>>> recieve contradictory
>>> information :-) Some people say there is, some there
>>> isn't. So, is
>>> there? I've been browsing www.postresql.org
>>> (http://www.postgresql.org/mirrors-ftp.html) but I
>>> don't seem to find a
>>> windows binary distribution... If there is one,
>>> where can I download it?
>>>
>>
>> There is no native Windows version of PostgreSQL, yet.
>> Plenty of people use Cygwin emulation to run
>> PostgreSQL on Windows. Reports are that it runs well
>> enough, but doesn't scale too well. There also exists
>> a beta (proof of concept?) port of PostgreSQL 7.2 by
>> PeerDirect. This is reported to work pretty well, but
>> is not supported by the PostgreSQL development group.
>> You can read more about these options at
>> http://techdocs.postgresql.org .
>>
>> A native Windows port is being actively developed at
>> present. No-one knows when it will be completed, but
>> we hope it will be ready for the next release, maybe
>> another four to six months.
>>
>>> --
>>> Pozdrav/Regards, Nikola [Nick] Skoric.
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>>> Da sam kaput sa dva lica, da sam Gospo'n
>>> Propalica..."
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>>> hrvatskom!
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>
> This question appears to have been posted to the lists pretty much
> every other day lately. Perhaps this information needs to be more
> prominently displayed on the front page of the site: perhaps a box
> containing logos for all major platforms linking either directly to
> the Downloads page or to more information on using PostgreSQL on that
> platform. I reckon that would do the trick.
>