Re: windows distribution

Quoting "Tony (Unihost)" <tony@unihost.net>:

> 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.
>
> 'Opinions Are Like Navels,  Everybody Has One!'
>
>
> Russ Brown wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 12:11:51 -0800 (PST), Jeff Eckermann
> > <jeff_eckermann@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> --- Nikola Skoric <nick-news@net4u.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.
> >>> "...Usne, tice-rugalice - a u oku tajac
> >>> Da sam kaput sa dva lica, da sam Gospo'n
> >>> Propalica..."
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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.
> >
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I'm not familiar with the cygwin environment but is there something about that
is turning off users to using it to run PG?

It seems to me we should be seeing *more* ports about how PG is performing on
cygwin instead of questions about a native port- especially from new users.


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Keith C. Perry, MS E.E.
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