Re: A newbie's opinion - postgres NEEDS a Windows binary!

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On 2001 November 20 04:19 pm, Brent R. Matzelle wrote:
> --- "Robert J. Sanford, Jr." <rsanford(at)nolimitsystems(dot)com> wrote:
> > as one of our fellow list members pointed out to me in a personal
> > email, you choose the tool that best fits your needs. if you
> > _need_ to be
> > working in win32 with high-traffic then postgres is probably not
> > for you.
>
> That is true if you have the client and database running on a single
> win32 machine. However you can connect to PostgreSQL with TCP/IP so
> you can always run the database on *NIX and run the web server or
> other client software on win32 through libpq.dll, Python, Java, PHP,
> PERL or ODBC. With all those choices it makes it an easier sell to
> an employer who would like to avoid the $5-20,000 per processor
> license fees in a database like MSSQL.

Toss in the added benifit of not having to reboot your database server every
couple of hours, and it's a no-brainer. Probably shouldn't be telling
everyone this, but I make good money transitioning Access and MSSQL systems
to Postgres. I typically see between 1.5 and 2 times the performance with
Postgres on the same hardware (with proper tuning of the OS). There's just
no good reason for a database server to waste cycles and ram running a gui
desktop environment.

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