Re: Postgres 8.0 vs. Postgres 7.4/Cygwin

From: Reini Urban <rurban(at)x-ray(dot)at>
To: sgoldstein(at)apache(dot)org
Cc: pgsql-cygwin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Postgres 8.0 vs. Postgres 7.4/Cygwin
Date: 2005-06-24 05:13:22
Message-ID: 42BB9672.1030603@x-ray.at
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Scott Goldstein schrieb:
> I'm currently trying to make a decision on whether to use the Cygwin
> port of Postgres 7.4 or Postgres 8.0 for a windows installation. Can
> someone provide some comparison info? Specifically,
>
> 1. Is the Cygwin port viable for an enterprise environment?

no, certainly not. try the native windows port instead.

> Does it perform? Is it reliable?

On about 10% percent of the cygwin 8.0 users it has yet unsolved IPC
problems on initial startup.
Loading the perl interpreter (plperl) has also caused IPC problems. (7.4
and 8.0)

> 2. How reliable is the Cygwin port compared to the 8.0 Windows version?
> 3. Has the Cygwin port been used very much in enterprise systems, or is
> it intended only for development environments?

yes, the latter.

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