Re: PostgreSQL still for Linux only?

From: Doug Hall <doughalldev(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL still for Linux only?
Date: 2005-03-09 17:39:53
Message-ID: 6ecb817005030909394b2b6995@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 11:02:10 -0600, Jim C. Nasby <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org> wrote:
>... but the fact is there's still a LOT of places
> that are windows shops and a LOT of people who use windows more heavily
> than *nix. More important, the egotism of "If you want to use PostgreSQL
> you better run it on what we tell you to run it on" is certain to turn
> people off of PostgreSQL.

Perhaps someone on the list who knows and uses the different operating
systems could set up a lab, to compare PostgreSQL between them.
Perhaps the latest Windows Server, a popular distribution of Linux,
and Mac OS X?

Has this already been done, with regard to performance?

Doug

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