Re: Limitations of PostgreSQL

From: "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>
To: "Richard Huxton" <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>, "Bill Bartlett" <bbartlett(at)meridianemr(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-general" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Limitations of PostgreSQL
Date: 2005-10-13 15:24:50
Message-ID: 6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCE6C7AD5@algol.sollentuna.se
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> > [snipped]
> >
> >> May not be the best choice on Windows for production use,
> though for
> >> development, it should be adequate.
> >
> > Are there known issues with the Windows version for
> production use, or
> > is this simply because of the relative newness of the
> Windows-native
> > version?
>
> Performance isn't as good (yet) as on the *nix releases, and
> there are issues with the autovacuum module and unicode
> support. Might be worth checking out the 8.1 beta release if
> you have specific requirements.

Specifically, both autovacuum and unicode support is fixed in 8.1. Along
with other things, of course , but those are the two big ones biting
win32 people in 8.0.
(IIRC nothing specific done for win32 regarding performance since 8.0.x,
for example - but it was done in one of the early 8.0.x releases)

//Magnus

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